The Hidden Gems Within Us
No one is valueless. People of every kind offer the most valuable thing there is to offer to each other: a different perspective. We appreciate the value of everyone's ideas in conversation. But why, if everyone enjoys talking to each other, does not everyone write? If everyone has valuable ideas, why don't they share them more? Schools have hindered the sharing of our ideas by forcing us to write under these imprisoning objectives that leave us little freedom. Our ideas are compared to other people's and we find that we can't work on the same level as others. But this isn't true at all. We don't bloom well in a shell that doesn't fit us. The biggest misconception about essays is that you have to worry about the answer to the prompt more than anything. But no, it is the prompt itself that we must worry about. Finding the right objective is the objective. It is these objectives that will lead to the hidden gems within us, letting us find a way to our most valuable ideas. It's just a matter of discovery and exploration.
I got into an argument with my brother one time about how it's so important to write down your ideas. We eventually came to an agreement that there is a point at which it is bad to write down ideas. This is when every idea that pops into your head is written down. This is not what I mean. Not every object seen in an exploration has value. We must be patient and find the ideas that mean the most.
Everyone is a writer in spirit, a philosopher at heart. It is one of our greatest obligations to society to explore our own ideas. Whenever I suggest to someone that they should write at least a little, they treat the idea like it's only something they can flirt with but nothing that they could ever do to accomplish anything. It may take a while to find what you are truly interested in, but it's worth it. Once you find your passion in writing, you will be making connections left and right, and you will be able to see the world in a new light, through the hidden gems within us.
People treat their ideas like they can only be used for amusement, something to pass the time, but they have a much greater potential. Essay writing is different from conversation in that you build through writing, you create a series of pieces that lead to bigger and better ideas. I find I have been repeating myself a lot less now that I have been writing essays. This is because I build off of old ideas to create new ones, rather than just passing around my old ideas in new forms. Conversation is like having plants in a pot. You can show off your ideas, but they won't grow past a certain point. Writing is like having a garden with no borders. Show people around as much as you want, with a great multitude of things to see, and best of all there's no limit to how much your plants can grow.
It may take a lot of mining to get to our hidden gems. But when we get to them, we can use them as a lens to see the world in a richer tone. Without finding these hidden gems that lay so deep within us, we are often stuck seeing the world through other people's lenses. We may depend upon someone else's labor rather than taking the time to do our own. But trust me: their hidden gems are worth very little when employed by you, but your own are priceless.
Finding these ideas is a task you will learn to love. It becomes a sort of hunt, with every idea that you pounce at giving you all that it can, without it ever running dry. Essays may seem like a chore. The traditional essays in school may seem like evidence of such. But you were merely chasing squirrels back then. Now you can move on to the lion of lions, the idea of ideas, the hidden gems within us.