A Writer's Duty

Writing classes have always been my haven. When living in a world where there is little room for a gray area, interpretation, creativity, self-discovery, and plenty of room for error, creative writing is the place where it all comes to a shush. And, when I have an audience, the world is now in my hands. I don't have to worry about the right or wrong answers or the harshness of my own reality. In these pages, I can create my own, and that is the safety we all deserve.

Since the beginning of time, our minds have tortured us with this obsessive questions of how and why we are here. As a result, alongside many tragedies, wars, and years of evolution, we have made the presupposition that our stories are deliberately sequenced, predestined, and executively designed by an omnipotent being. This harsh sense of fatality hangs over our heads every second of the day, and it is, ironically, the reason we make the many decisions that we do, which fall into, yet again, a sequence of events we consider to have been done by the doings of something or someone else. 

However, this cannot always be our constant mindset. This sense of fate tends to be the reason we believe we have been born into our given situations – and, while sometimes we do not have choices about how we can control our past or present reality, we can control the future with the help of our perspectives, if we are brave enough to alter them at times. Moreover, while there are many circumstances we cannot control in our current surroundings, there is always one place in life that has no worldly-imposed, pre-destined time, place, or sequence of events, if we wish, and that is our minds. Whether we are at the physical place we want to be, or we are not, strong or weak, delighted or disheartened, we have the power to control how we perceive it all and how we manipulate those perceptions. And that is the true power that it takes to change our world completely. These inspirations turn into ideas we can write onto paper and type in a word document. Then, the need for pre-destined fate and reality is maximally reduced when we can open our minds and see the possibilities. Ultimately, once we take the power to imagine and utilize it with something like creative writing, we can change how we die, how we live, and how others do the same, regardless of the limitations.