I believe that writing is very important. It’s important because it has been used throughout history for many different reasons. One of the reasons writing is important is because it can capture history of events. One of the earliest forms of this was when people would write down transactions between each other, for example it would show that person A gave person B 5 sheep in exchange for 2 pigs. Writing has then been further used to precisely write down historical events rather than just transactions. Another reason writing is also used to help alleviate some sort of burden or to express emotion. That is why poetry and theater have been around for so long because people have found the use of writing as liberating and expressive. It gives them a medium in which they can say what they feel without telling other people. The idea had grown so big that psychologists and other professionals have done studies on whether writing can improve your mental health and it has been shown that it does. That is why not only therapists but people on social media have recommended writing in some sort of way. Even in media like television and movies show people having diaries, it shows that writing is very important and widely done by anyone in any sense. Writing can also reveal something about yourself that you haven’t seen before. Just like the saying “the eyes are the windows to the soul” I believe that writing is like that. It highlights stuff about yourself because when writing you are actively processing your thoughts to write it down on paper and to process your thoughts you have to have some sort of understanding. This is why everyone should at least give free writing a try, it could help you in more ways than one.