Why do we Write Essays?!

We write essays because someone told us to as an assignment, to meet deadlines, to get paid for, for passion, to put ideas in to writing, to empty the mind, to word a mind boggling thought, to prove a point, argue, appeal, advocate- the list never ends and add to that I don’t know all the occasions that a person may pick up a pen and write something or type letters on a key board. Isn’t it that we are always writing something? I believe that vast majority of the world population does some kind of writing at least every 24 hours. Write an email or text message, sign a check, and write on walls, writing could be done anytime, anywhere. I will make a note here, when I said writing on walls, world as evolved such that there are two kinds – the tangible walls in buildings and around them, where people take great pleasure scribbling on; two the walls on Facebook accounts where people do something similar to the former.

Exception for illiterate people, but even them if they pick up a stick and streak a picture on the sand, I will consider that as an attempt to write. This is because writing is a way of expression; you read a sentence from which you get an idea, a concept, a story, a point of view, information. Well I don’t think this list is going to end either. I find it ironic that there are illiterate people or even a literacy rate, because the 195 countries in the world have created approximately 6912 living languages. So does this imply that there is a population that couldn’t learn at least one of these 6912? Isn’t it humiliating that out of 6912 most people know only one or two? And we, who had been using one language all our lives still haven’t, mastered the style of it?

Here is an interesting fact. Papua New Guinea has the highest linguistic diversity, having approximately 830 for 5.4 million people, which is about one language for every 6500 residents. I hope that everyone is literate there, at least. It is reported that there are238 languages in United States, of which 162 are still living. We can see why the US hasn’t declared English as its official language. It would set of rallies and protests big enough to make the headlines.

Writing is the second source of communication besides speaking, except for the mute or deaf where the priority differs. So if some kind of biological or chemical manipulation mutes a population the only source of communication will be writing. I don’t necessarily hope that will happen, but it will provoke people to write more often. As for me I blab on paper as much as I blab when I meet people. I realize that typing a text message of 30 words is much an essay as writing an essay of 600 words. No one set limits to it, so somewhere in this world a person typing a text apologizing for his absence, is actually writing an essay. If it was me typing the text I could never stop because once I start writing I can go on and on and on.