To give validity and justice to the previous entry...

Perchance, some people think that writing as a profession is not suitable to be categorized in the other sort, the complicated sort. For some people, anyone who is educated enough can write. For others even, writing is like being a mailman or a cashier, when everything becomes a routine.

Let me falsify this, once and for all.

Many times in the past, I felt so small whenever I’m in a class where training biologists, physicists, mathematicians, and economists dominate. I used to think that the training I was going through could not match up to theirs. I used to think that what I would become in the future would seem so incompetent unlike what they would become.

But then, after a few years of experience and pondering, my views changed. Writing is no easy thing to do. To be a truly eligible writer, one has to go through a lot of complexities, perhaps the same as those who train to be a doctor.

Writer. Doctor. Writer. Doctor.

I am not trying to be humorous here, by comparing the work of a writer to that of a doctor.

Doctors save lives, change lives, and even take lives – that powerful. But, writers have that same power to save, change, and take lives, also.

Some would argue that doctors do such a rigid and tough job everyday, and writers don’t. At this point, I tell them that they shouldn’t take lightly what writers do.

Writers even think more than doctors do.

Here’s another argument I know would raise a lot of eyebrows. Still, I’m not taking it back.

Doctors do what they already know, and should know, by heart. They do what they have learned, what they should have learned along the way. On the other hand, the things that writers have learned all throughout their trainings would only serve as guides and would just help show directions to what they ought to do. Day after day, they start from scratch. Day after day, they press themselves to lift the lids on top of their heads, and whatever’s inside them should vary, day after day.

So whoever said that writing is easy, you might want to give yourself a chance to have second thoughts on that matter.