Two big-picture reasons why I will never stop writing

Not that my writing journey is so long that I am now making huge plans, but the journey started, no doubt. It counts almost a thousand stories in two years, between my Medium and Substack.

The first reason is monetary, but it’s not what you might think. I see myself, decades from now, retiring and being able to support myself with just writing. I am not planning to retire. In fact, I hate most retirement stories. This Google engineer is saving XYZ and plans to retire at 35. Sounds like a life lacking any meaning, though I should stick to the mantra I often preach: to each his own.

I also have all kinds of plans relating to my career and entrepreneurial instincts. So, it’s not like writing is my Plan A strategy to secure a financially stable post-retirement period of my life.

Or is it? I don’t like putting things into that dry perspective. Plan A, retirement, financially stable — ah, these words are so cliche and unappealing. But I can totally imagine myself writing because I enjoy it and also making a living out of it because I have built a large audience. I don’t know how exactly. It’s not Medium dollars or Substack followers that I have in mind. I don’t know how exactly it will work out financially. But it will — if I continue to write, day after day, year after year.

The second reason is that I see a huge opportunity for self-improvement. It’s both an aspiration and a necessity.