why do people write?

I asked my self this question a lot. Ya, why do we –human- write? Even in our first year of school or kinder garten, we’ve been announced to a thing named, writing. Even though at that time we just wrote some unclear lines, borders, shapes, and alphabets, but we wrote something.  As we grew older, those unclear lines, borders, and shapes become clearer year by year, and at the end we can write everything that is in our mind. This phenomenon really indicates that writing is a highly important activity in human life so that it is taught in human early years of life. So, what makes it that important?

A research in European countries shows that human writing activity can be traced back to year 4 BC. It reports that writing becomes a highly needed method to keep data and information in administrative works. At that time, writing becomes a permanent and trusted method to record the entire administrative task (Robinson, 2003). Based on this history, we can conclude that one of the importances of writing is to keep permanent memories about something. Well. It is unbeatable, because by writing human can keep the memories and information as long as they want to. Although the writer passed away, his/her memories will last because the writing is stand still. But I believe, writing has a lot more significance such as preventing stress; managing goals; sharing ideas; and convincing others.

Generally speaking, writing can help human dealing with their stress. Some people say that writing is healing. It means that to write your problem means lighten your burden. By writing, human can surge their problem and lighten their burden. Sometimes writing can also come with a solution to the problem. By this mean, stress levels can be decreased or vanished.

Writing can also help human in managing their life goals. A lot of motivator and successful people suggest us to write our dreams in order to make them come true. Writing our goals means focusing our brain and mind to those goals and ensures our body to walk in the right path of success.

The third significance of writing is to share ideas. So many brilliant ideas will remain idea if the people can not share their ideas with others. By sharing good idea with others, the writer contributes to the goodness of society.

At the end of this writing, I can say that –yes- writing is certainly important to keep memories; to cure stress; to manage goals; to share ideas; and also to convince others. In addition to the entire factors above, one thing for sure :  to write is to be happy!! :D