But Writing is Different

To say you are a football, soccer, or basketball paper, people automatically assume that you must be pretty darn good at it if you gave yourself that title. If you say you’re a businessman or doctor, you probably went through rigorous schooling and live up to that title as your career. But writing is different. Writing is a necessity of life in today’s day and age, just as listening, reading, and speaking are. I write a list of five things I did each day before bed. I text my friends, I email my family, and I write notes on the whiteboard in my dorm to my roommates. In class I write notes to remember what I learned and then later write papers on those same notes. I think of writing as a more permanent form of thinking. It’s like a timeless thought that doesn’t get forgotten unless the note was thrown away, the text was deleted or the journal got burned. If nothing else writing is a form of communication, and we all must communicate in order to survive.