"Norbert Platt once said “The act of putting pen to paper encourages pause for thought, this in turn makes us think more deeply about life, which helps us regain our equilibrium” (Platt 1). Sometimes the pen and the pad are more powerful than being vocal. For me, writing helps me reflect on the past and helps me with my future. I write because the paper is the only thing that listens to me when I need a helping hand. This is why I write.
Writing has been my getaway for a few years now. Once my father left, I had so many emotions and thoughts running through my mind every single day. My father was my absolute best friend and I just could not believe he left his family for another woman and her young daughter. No one could understand the hurt and the pain I was feeling. Truthfully, I could not understand it myself. It was hard for me to talk about how I was feeling to anyone. The only thing that would help was writing, and I think Orwell and myself could relate on that. In George Orwell’s essay he stated “I think from the very start my literary ambitions were mixed up with the feeling of being isolated and undervalued” (Orwell 1). I started writing because I needed something to help me cope with the fact that I would not have my best friend or father around anymore. My father clearly did not value our
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In Orwell’s essay he voiced “What I have most wanted to do throughout the past ten years is to make political writing into an art” (Orwell 5). When I write, I express exactly what I am feeling, exactly what is going through my mind, and I say exactly what I would say if I were speaking to an actual person. Orwell on the other hand was not like that. Orwell declared “I write it because there is some lie that I want to expose, some fact to which I want to draw attention, and my initial concern is to get a hearing” (Orwell 1). I write to be honest no matter