Blog assignment #5: Why do we write?

It’s not an easy question to answer. We can only speculate why our forefathers started to write. One important aspect is that they write to tell information to others and also to themselves. If some specific area were good for hunting they wanted to have an easy description to find the way back to that place.

Nowadays I suppose the major reason is that each individual want to show that they exist. Everyone think that they are professors in at least one subject; in all of the blogs all around the internet you can read different peoples thoughts about many topics. They think that they can earn money just by writing about what they are good at. And some people do.

To write is also an easy way to live further after your dead. We want others to talk about us when we are alive. Why shouldn’t we want peoples to talk about us when we are dead? Newton, Hemingway and Shakespeare are examples of men that write down their thoughts and become immortal.

If we can’t have them to write about us we have to grab the pencil and write it by ourselves.

/Anton