Pen To Paper

What is writing but a way to say what you want without having to explain yourself, without having to worry about people contradicting what you say.

It is a way for one to tell the world what they feel, to tell them what they want.

You can tell a lot from the way someone writes. They may write something completely original, from the heart or they may copy someone else’s work and claim it as they own.

It all depends on who they are as a person. While someone maybe ineloquent in speaking they may be the most poetic person while writing.

They don’t have to worry about people going against what they say. Paper doesn’t talk back and this gives them a chance to show who they really are. To be who they what to be not who others expect them to be.

If they want to say ‘I love you’ then they can. They can put their feelings down on paper while they may stop and freeze while speaking.

People have choice when they write. They can be free.

They don’t have to follow what society dictates. They can show true freedom of speech.

Freedom of speech. How can that sentence be true? People are beaten and killed for what they say more so than for what they write. If you write it nobody has to know.

You can keep it to yourself, hidden between the pages of a book or on lose leaflets that can be burnt or thrown away as needed. You can always erase what you write while what you say can have a lasting impact on those that hear it and not always a good one.

You can be free and you can write the truth. When you speak you have to watch out for others and their own expectations.

How can one be free like that?

To me it seems much better to write.