by Ali Hashmi

Created on: June 08, 2009   Last Updated: June 09, 2009

Why I write? a topic so tempting and enticing that I cannot not actually resist myself from expressing. Did I write, expressing?

In my opinion the most powerful of all human attributes is the divine gift to express yourself. Writing is not just about holding a pen and scribbling hieroglyphs on papyrus, carving on a stone tablet or simply jotting things on paper. Just now, as I express myself through this platform I inevitably proclaim my freedom before you and the world. By freedom i mean the liberty of the person within me. I am an individual who cherishes freedom and I love every bit of it. Truly, the ability to express myself is merely one of the strongest markers that i liberty and my individuality.I feel strongly inside that sanity would never let me throw my pen away and prefer a solitary confinement of my intellect that is to analogous to selling my freedom of course. The divine gift of writing enables me to differ with people, oppose, rebut an idea or to advocate it. Hence in innumerable ways It ensures and guarantees me my right to live liberally.

There may be plenty of other reasons behind why i write but among them is the overwhelming desire is to be heard. I do not mind calling myself a social animal and the truth is I am one; I want people to hear me and respect me for my beliefs, faith and ideas. I want a dialogue and I crave for them every now and then. This compels me to write. I wish to trigger a response from the people around me, so I write. I hear their mind, their opinion and get a glimpse of their persona. And trough this feedback mechanism I learn, innovate and discover things each day. Each time I write I guarantee myself a chance to learn from the wisdom and experiences of people around and as a matter of fact I gradually evolve as a better specie. Writing for me is a slow but strong evolutionary process for an individual's improvement. At least to me it provides ample chances of learning. If you do not want to ruin your chances of learning my recommendation to anyone reading this article is to write from today. No one can negate the fact that we humans learn from each other and writing just as vocal speech provides another platform of expressing oneself.

I preserve all my memories as I write pouring down all my thoughts and imaginations on a blank piece of paper that prior had no worth on its own. The cascade of vivid thoughts that run down from my mind and onto the paper becomes history and preserves a part of me while I do not exist anymore. I leave a part of myself behind for eternity whenever I write.

I am able to present my preferences and dislikes before the world. Moreover, in a way I tell all my contemporaries that I am unique and unlike anyone else. This very idea causes a surge of excitement through my veins. I am able to share with people about the amalgam of feelings and the ideas that brew inside me without a slightest tinge of hesitation. If this right is taken away from me then I would prefer a confinement or be sentenced imprisonment rather than living a life without the expression of my individuality. Losing the right to write is partly losing my identity. I fear the bereavement of the identity that I owe and take pride in, so I write.

I am determined that I will write and continue writing for individuality, freedom and expression are very dear to me.

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