Aarya.

I am going to be honest, I am not a writer. Was I ever interested in writing? Well, I would be lying if I said yes. When I started my school years, I always believed that writing was just a “hobby”. I found no joy in writing as I always thought that if I had something to say, I could just say it.

We all get hurt, often by the words people say or events that are beyond our control. It’s nothing new, but the circumstances of how you get hurt are irrelevant, because your insecurities will replay that agonizing moment over and over again in your mind’s eye. So, where am I going with this?

10 years later, with thousands of thoughts in my head, I picked up a pen and started writing, scrambling my thoughts, my ideas, my stories onto pieces of paper. Time passed and I kept writing until I had nothing left to write, nothing left to say. Well, does that make me a writer?

I’ll have to say no. In my opinion, a writer is someone who has the desire to write, not the need to write. Up until that moment, I wrote stuff because I was asked to, not because I wanted to, and that is what I expect to become after this class- Someone who has the desire to write.