Why I Write

I write because I want to. I write because I like it. I write because I sometimes feel the need to express myself in any random manner that I fancy. I write because oral communication, though rich and expressive, works through a very limited and demanding channel. When a conversation takes place, the channel being used, the air between the participants, is most naturally half duplex. People's voices occupy a wide spectral range of frequencies, and much interference would be sure to occur if the channel were attempted as full duplex. Besides, the attention of both the emitter and the receiver must be mostly dedicated to the task of oral communication while it is taking place. Both language speaking and understanding are complicated tasks, and each side must perform language processing and the required heavy reasoning to produce the ideas to be communicated at a fast pace in a real-time scenario.

I consider writing to be a far more relaxed task in comparison. The task of writing is emulated in an environment with much softer time constraints than the ones of oral conversation, and ideas can be allowed to flow at their own pace, each word chosen carefully and precisely, subtly emphasizing exact meanings, smoothly shaping each sentence and paragraph, sculpting the message that feels best at that moment - be it firm and polite, whimsical and silly, drenched in nostalgia, melancholic, deeply reflecting, or beautifully profound. Language becomes clay, molded through the writer's ideas into the message to convey. He paints the sentences with his emotions, his paragraphs wrapped with the mood, and finally polishes it up with a quick self-review.

So that's why I write. I enjoy it very much. Not that anyone asked, but yeah.