One of the finest ways to explore your own self is by writing. You reveal your true identity in your writing. It frees your mind to wander and gives you the passion to create imaginations. Writing is something that everyone can take up for the simple pleasure of it all. You don’t have to decorate your words with fine sounding arguments but offer raw expressions of what’s inside you. Nobody is more creative than others-it is simply the use of it that makes the difference.Writing has done much good to mankind. It has opened our eyes to behold the unseen things, stirred men to action and revolutionized our Adam’s race. Have you ever wondered why the Divine communicated to mankind through the medium of writing? There is something about writing that man cannot grasp fully. It speaks more volumes and last much longer than the oratory. It stays forever. “If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write,” Martin Luther would state. In writing, there is no caste, rich or poor, high or low that comes into play. From the top to the bottom, writing has no discrimination.
Writing shapes the mind and brings life into the lives of the writer as well as the readers.All the knowledge of men has been made possible simply because a person choose to put those thoughts into writing. Hominids are created with the potentiality to think and reason. It is this that makes human, humans. Writing should go beyond the ordinary happenings of life. It should be a flow of all that is within one’s soul. The mysterious nature of the worth of men is treasured in writings as every single soul has the capacity to think differently from person to person.
Writing should not just be pursued by skilled or professional journalists, freelancers, novelists, writers but should be the common pursuit and passion of everyone because it is in writing that our true souls are discovered. Children, young and old alike should be encouraged to write what’s on their mind. There are loads of minds that are rusting away without use. Our minds are ready to be exploited and it is realised through writing. Writing helps us to remove the cobwebs of unnecessary thoughts, details and events in life. It gives us a priority look into the work details and affairs. Not all writers may be leaders but all leaders are influenced by writers.
Therefore, the gift of writing is to be pursued with ink and paper. It does not cost much but is too costly for one to miss out. Our soul may die but never our writings. It is in the noting of our thoughts and imagination that makes us a superior animal. Finally, no man should die without writing a book because your existence in this world has made a tremendous impact and you are the only one unique person among the many millions that will never pass by again. So, it is with this interest that I put these thoughts into writing. God bless the readers, Amen.
Vebu Khamo,
Kohima Bible College
