Writing: My Tool for Expressing Emotions

Writing is an art, you put your black and white words on a paper and readers collects colorful images on their mind. Everyone has their own definitions or purposes when it comes to writing. Some do it because they want to and others do it because they must. I write for both purposes. Writing is my tool to communicate and it gives me a platform to express my emotions.
I am not good at verbally expressing myself and since childhood, writing helped me a lot. Whenever I had problems with my friends and family, I would apologize them through a letter or write a mini message to them. Back in my country, when I was in my school, we had a lot of speech or debate competition. I never took part but my friends did. I would write a speech for them. Writing has always been a part of communication. As now, I got here at U.S. and English is my second language. It is sometimes hard for me to communicate verbally. When I talk to people, I could not make them understand what I meant. Honestly, I have been ignoring people when they come to talk to me. I always write a text message. When I am writing a

text message I am the different person they say. Hence, when I write down I can pour out my heart without editing my words. I can write down the things that I cannot tell anyone without feeling pathetic. Writing always helps to communicate when verbal words fail.
I get mad, sad, and have some hate feelings and I keep them within me.

People say that if you let go your burden emotions, you will feel relieved. They suggest me to verbally communicate with people. That is what I am not comfortable with doing. I am frustrated inside. Then, I will pick a pen, a notebook, and write to let go of what I am holding. Once I am done throwing away my feelings and experiences in my notebook, I feel like I can breathe properly again and my smile will never fade. Writing gets my creative juices flowing and helps me to come face to face with my struggles and anxieties. It forces me to find a solution to my problem. It helps me to cope. It sometimes gives me an outlet for all my negative emotions. Therefore, writing is like a mother’s love to me. It takes all my problem within itself, calms me down and suggests me to solve my problem like every mother

does.
I do have some issues with writing. It is when grammar mutes me. It prevents me to reach my full potential. Best example would be writing this paper. I wrote so many sentences and finally came out with these. For all the other sentences, I feel like the grammar was not correct. I had to cut them out.
To me, writing is laying all my thoughts or words that I cannot say out loud on a paper. It is a way of self-expressing. It conveys my opinion to people. Writing has always been important in everyone’s lives. I think writing helps to better future. For me, it sure does. Here, I am writing a paper to pass this class with an ‘A’ so that I can get into a good nursing school.