Why to write ?

(Sainiput)

‘The pen is mightier than the sword’ they say, and there is no denying the fact. I am all praise for the unknown person who coined this most appropriate statement. It has proved its efficacy in the past, and is equally applicable to the present. In fact a universal truth, it has something to do with the mental faculties of human kind, which are very slowly developing for the better.

Passing through various stages of development like homo-sapiens and all that, the human beings have since become capable of appreciating something called argument. The argument came with the human brain imbibing capability called thinking; to consider the pros and cons of any given situation before reacting to it. As such, the days when the human beings used to fight like animals to solve their disputes or to have their say are on the way out. There was a stage even during the recent centuries when the fore-bearers of certain religions carried sword to make non-believers follow their point of view. Though that kind of method is still in vogue in one form or another as some countries are still fighting, yet the general scenario has largely changed, and the negotiation is given preference over fighting. This has become possible only with the thinking power of humans giving them the power of reasoning with the help of argument.

The reasoning by argument is promoted by ideas, which in turn stem from experience. As such, the human brain is achieving more and more heights of development, with the help of experience, which has to be passed from generation to generation in the form of ideas. This process of passing on the experiences, and the resulting ideas, is called education. The education as such, deals with imparting of knowledge or so to say ideas in bulk. The human memory not yet having developed enough to assimilate the wealth of all the ideas cumulating from the past experiences, some medium is required to store the ideas in bulk, so that these can be passed on to the coming generations in the form of knowledge from time to time, to help the developing human brain. The written word is the medium as such, which records and stores the wealth of knowledge for human kind.

The written word comes into existence with the help of pen. Job of the pen is to write. The one who wields the pen (also read Keyboard) to write is the writer. The power of writing or wielding the pen to write only comes to the one who is pregnant with knowledge or the bulk of ideas resulting from experience. As such the pen representing the writer is a medium in the development of humanity for the better. It helps humankind abandon the path of violence and take to reasoning.

So, if one is making some achievements in life especially by circumventing pitfalls, one must be having many experiences, assimilating a crowd of ideas in memory. In order to help the humankind continue its march for the better, one should like to share all one’s ideas with future generations of humankind. Some of the ideas might have certainly sprouted from one’s mistakes, which if passed on to the coming generations could also help them learn from mistakes. One can store all one’s ideas for future only if one transforms them into written words. And for that, one should write.

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