Where Did We Lose It?
Almost everyone can remember that time when you were younger in school and your teacher assigning you to write a paper about yourself. A paper with little limitations about what you are interested in, about your memories, and about what you want to accomplish later in life. Even though writing a paper can be a bit of a pain, times like these is when one feels at ease with the paper and pen because they are talking about what matters to them. Being in college, you may still write about your dreams or a memory that makes you laugh every time you think about it, but odds are your time with writing is mainly consumed with writing for others. Writing about a novel you barely skimmed but now forced to re-read the entire chapters because your mid-term paper is due that night; or maybe writing in a language you barely know in a class you had to take because you need three semesters in a foreign language. Whatever the case may be as people grow older with writing, it may be easy to forget why you’re even doing it in the first place. Yes, you’re doing it to graduate and you’re doing it to satisfy a requirement but why is writing almost always viewed now as a negative for people attending college? The reason may be because you stopped writing for you. You know that college is most likely the right thing to do nowadays because of the world that we live in but don’t let the writing your uninterested in keep you from writing what you are interested in and what you want to accomplish. According to a study done by Gail Matthews at Dominican University, “those who wrote down their goals accomplished significantly more than those who did not write down their goals.” So why you think that writing may be just be another useless activity because you have basically done it your entire life, writing can be used as a vision for your thoughts and aspirations. With that being said, lets give writing another chance. Let’s not let the writing we have to do in college get the best of us. Let’s get back to why we first started to love writing when we were kids, for ourselves.
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