not everyone can write
2 days ago i was hanging out with my friends and one of them brought up this topic about some guy on campus. apparently, he was talking down on writing majors saying “everyone can write”, like we aren’t anything special.
sure okay. ‘everyone can write’.
but can you pour your soul into your writing? can you translate your messy complex emotions into words that actually make someone feel something? can you narrate a story that makes people forget the real world for a moment? can you build metaphors that hold actual meaning and not just sound aesthetic or the sake of sounding smart?
can you?
people think writing is a joke because they’ve never read something that hits them so deeply it makes them stop and wonder what kind of storm was happening in the author’s mind.
writing isn’t just throwing words or sentences onto a piece of paper or typing into microsoft word. writing is baring your heart and letting people read the parts of you that you don’t even know how to say out loud. it’s like taking something invisible, emotional, fragile and making it real enough for others to feel it too.
sure AI can replicate our work. and yeah it is undeniable that a lot of us use AI to write sometimes. but a human mind and AI’s aren’t the same. our brains are limitless, unpredictable and full of feelings we don’t even know how to name. we imagine things that don’t exist yet.
AI can generate words but we create meaning.
that’s the difference. nothing can compete with a human mind.
that is what makes writing magical. we take our heartbreaks, fears, memories, little private thunderstorms and turn them into something someone else can hold. writing is a proof that we existed and that we felt something. that’s how special humans are.