week 7: writing

Writing

Writing has always been a part of me, ever since I was little. I have written every day of my life. I write for school, I write for fun, I write when I sleep, and I write my life. Writing shapes me, it’s who I am.  Writing is my life.

Before my time, before our time, no one really wrote. No one could write down a story, speech, or poem, no one had a means of writing. When writing was created it was a picture, it was a drawing. The cavemen and the Egyptians all wrote with drawings, each picture had a different meaning. The cavemen wrote/drew about their hunts and the Egyptians wrote/drew hieroglyphics to explain their lives. Now writing and drawing are apart of our lives, but both are used differently now, writing is used to tell things, while drawing is to show things.

When I write I see what is happening, I form a mental picture. I write about both the good and the bad. I write to share personal experiences, I write to share my ideas, and I write to share with the world my personal view on things. Whenever I write I feel like I’m the only one there, I am the only one in the room or the world. I concentrate on writing my piece, I think of nothing else.

Benjamin Franklin once said, “Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.” Many people don’t even realize that they are writing their own stories every day by their words and actions. Writing is also more than just school work or a required speech. According to Jorge Luis Borges, “Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.” And I believe this, so many time my writings seam so dream like, the just com out of no where, much like our own unusual dreams.

Writing is so much more than a bunch of words on a piece of paper. For some, it is a way to express ideas, thoughts, and their imagination. While for others, it is a way of life.  Desiderius Erasmus once said, “The desire to write grows with writing.” I know from my own experience that this is true. I know that writing is a part of me, it always will be. I will continue to write for a long as I live, because writing is my passion. Writing, for me, will always be my life.

“True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those who move easiest have learned to dance.” -- Alexander Pope