英語の長文問題を解いていたときに
There is an idea current in the prevailing culture that writing about something that pains you heals the pain.I was not, when I began writing my life story, and am not now, healed of my mother.But you do gain a small distance from anything by keeping it in suspension in your mind while you work at finding the words to fit it.The process is so slow that you don't notice its effect, but the point is that it is process.I found out when I was a little girl that if you are crying uncontrollably and want to stop, the thing is to do something useful with your tears ― water a plant,say.They'll dry up by themselves.The same happens when you try to make sentences out of painful material: the material lightens as it it put to work. ……
(引用、一橋大)
とあってなるほどなあと思いました
ものに何かを書きつけることはとても大切だと私は思っていて、私にとってこのブログがそれにあたるので書き続けてストレスから逃れる一つの手段として活用できたらと思っています
もっとも、私は文章を書くことがあまり得意ではないので駄文生成機と化さないように気を付けないといけませんね