We write to inform ourselves
about ourselves. Writing is a lot more than just pen to paper or words to page,
writing is contributing ideas to society and feelings to posterity, writing is
for the future and about the past, writing is everything it is made while
being everything it already is. And although the idea of writing is not always
at the top of the priorities in our personal lives, it is a vital piece of the
puzzle. Writing matters and will continue to do so through every era that
passes by because it helps us learn as individuals and therefore teaches us
about the nature of our population.
I have found that there is always
an undeniable edge in anxiety and a certain spike in uncertainty when writing
is mentioned to most anyone. Understandably so, writing the thoughts that lie
in the very deep and personal end of your heart is basically terrifying and can
seem like the worst idea ever. Thing is, the moment there are no longer any
young inexperienced writers, is the moment that the future old and experienced
writers get cheated of their chance to grow. Writing is a craft that needs to
be continued, not only to pass along scientific findings but also to convey the
values and ideas that make up every era.
The role of writing is very complex
within society and within an individual’s life. For me, a life, a world, a
universe without the written word is unimaginable. Life has a meaning, it’s
meaning is to give it a meaning, to find something that speaks to you on a
level that wouldn’t really be complete without writing down a sentence or
two about it, to write it down in hopes that it might touch someone else’s life
and help them find their own meaning.
While writing is an important tool
for immortalizing facts and has been a vital source of information regarding
the ideas and philosophies of our ancestors, it has also allowed us to connect
through this broader idea of writing down a story to convey something deeper
than a series of events. Writing has taught us that pain and love and hardship
have been constants throughout eras, that the fact that the author of your
favorite book can touch your modern 20th century life with beautifully placed
words crafted maybe before you were even a thought in the universe is
important, its a point that only heightens the idea of writing being so vital
in understanding the world and everything around us. And there's something
spiritual about that, something that serves to connect generations with a
string threaded by a sentence, made up of words that together mean so much more
than a story.
Therefore, writing is much more
than a hobby or a job, writing is art. A hobby brings pleasure, a job creates
wealth, but art makes you feel something. There's fear in writing a story, there's
reluctance when writing that essay, there’s passion in writing that poem.
That’s the point, that’s why writing matters, because there is something behind
it, there's something that defines us as a population as much as it defines us
as individuals. Theres somebody's life behind a book, someones dreams behind a
poem, someones pain behind a short story, theres so much to convey, so much to
learn, so much to accept about our nature. And the more that is written, the
more that is read, the more ideas that are sparked, and the beautiful cycle
continues.
I think people spend their lives
reading, reading books, signs, letters, poems, stories, waiting for something
to pull them into a state of realization, waiting for a couple of words to
brighten their lives with understanding. People wait for a piece of
writing that will change something about how they perceive, they wait for a
person to write something groundbreaking that will change their life,
never imagining along the way, that that person is them.
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