It has taken me a long time to decide how I can start this piece of writing. I have though very hard about it and many ideas passed through my mind. Finally I decided to put all those ideas as an introduction to the topic, since it is very related with it. This is how I usually write. I always spend a lot of time trying to take a decision about how I can start my writing. That’s why I decided to start my first paragraph with those words. This whole entry will be about my way of writing, my reasons and everything related with it.
Writing for me is a very important part of my life. I write at least five times a week. That’s too much for some people, since they don’t really like use their skills in the daily life. The most of the people always use writing for academic and labour purposes. They do not appreciate the importance of writing in every single minute. We were all tough to write when we were five or six years all. Now my question is: why don’t we use this ability every day? If you remember those first years in the kindergarten, you will remember that it was so hard to learn how to write. If it was so hard and you succeeded, why isn’t writing an important part of your life to? Writing is more that take notes or write three words to indicate you something you have to do. Writing is to put your feelings, your emotions, your thoughts, your life in a piece of paper. It is something deep and personal that should be shared, at least with you.
Nowadays there’s a tension between two types of writing: handwriting and typing. It is usually said that both are almost the same. Furthermore, it is said that typing is easier and more comfortable than handwriting, due to the fact that typing in a computer is very simple. You just need a basic knowledge of grammar and syntax, the text processor helps you to check and correct you orthography and the most necessary knowledge you need is to know where each keyboard key is placed. Sometimes technology is a helpful tool that allows us to make our activities quicker, but it also brake us in our, learning. When we prefer typing to handwriting we are fomenting the lack of necessary knowledge to write. We are allowing machines to do our work and we are not trying our mental abilities. There is also a physical problem at typing. We use and exert our eyes that we can cause a loss of vision is any of our eyes. On the other hand, handwriting makes you feel in control of your writing. I have always thought that when you are writing something, the movement of your hand is also expressing something. If you are tired, your handwriting will be very untidy, if you are anxious to do something your handwriting will show your eagerness and if you are relaxed, your handwriting will be very tidy and understandable. I really love seeing those sheets of papers in which many corrections are made. They are original and male you feel that a real human made that job instead of a machine. What is more, I usually make my assignments by pen and then I type them.
When I was eleven years old, I started writing. By those years I had read the four first books of Harry Potter’s saga and that story really inspired me to write the fifth part of the story. I managed to get a notebook and to keep it in secret. Everybody wanted to know what my secret was, but I didn’t want them to know. Maybe I was so shy during those days or I wasn’t interested in make my stories famous. Then I began writing poems and short “fan-music” which are stories inspirited in songs. When I got older I changed my interests and I decided t write my thoughts about the life its advantages and disadvantages. That was very exciting because I knew things about me that I didn’t know.
Nowadays, my writing is more elaborated that before. I continue creating characters of different worlds; each one of them has its own personality and story that is linked with the different parts of my life. In addition I love writing my opinion about every single event that calls my attention during the day. Sometimes I just get a piece of paper and a pen, and, by the time that I finish I destroy the paper. As I work in church as a “companion” of a group of teenagers, I have to write a lot. Every weekend I sum up ever what was said during the meetings and I upload a document to our blog. There’s another way of writing in my daily life is when I have to transcribe the notes I took during the day at the university.
As writing is so important for me, I can’t just use any kind of instrument. I may seem vain, but that is not my intention. Actually, I just use one brand of pen to write. I really love the fine point pen bic. The point is so soft that you can feel the real shape of the paper when you write. The pen slides on the paper what allows you to write quicker. Nevertheless that is not the reason why I like to use those pens. The real reason is that I use those pens because the blue pen is blue. It is to say, there are many blue pens, but the colour of those pens is not blue; for me it is like a violet instead of blue.
I like writing because I can feel that I have the control of the world for some minutes. It may seem strange but I feel like a God. I create my own world, my own people and I decide if they are happy or not. Many people use writing to escape from their lives and their problems. I dare to say that sometimes I use the same method to avoid some problems, or, what’s better, I use this method to solve the problems. Writing makes you think a lot, due to the fact that your brain is working so hard trying to find ideas, events and thoughts from your past. If you are lucky, you will come across with a solution or a piece of advice that will be very helpful.
I actually expect nothing from my writing. I don’t want to make money with it, but if there’s one opportunity I will take it. The only thing I currently expect from my writing is to find some calmness. I have always said that I have a lot of problems expressing my feelings by speaking, but when I write, I am the boss.
To summarize, writing is one of the most important thing we have. The real problem is that the most of the people do not take advantage of the opportunities that writing gives to their lives. I do love writing, thus it is an important part of my life. Sometimes technology helps us to create lovely and good pieces of writing. Nevertheless, we abuse of them and machines are in charge of our lives. I use writing for many reasons, but the most important for me is to create new stories and to express my feelings. I just need a piece of paper and a fine point pen for this. As writing has been almost in my whole life, I don’t think that I will give up writing. I started writing when I was a child and I expect stop writing when I lack movement in my hands.
No comments:
Post a Comment