The definition of a writer is heavily miscomprehended in our society. Writers are not only the professional writers that write our favorite books or the novels we read. Nonetheless, this is often the initial thought that comes to mind when one mentions the word writer. A writer is any person that meticulously throws words together on a paper like a painter that grabs their paintbrush and paints an exquisite vivid image. This image is painted by the writer through the usage of words, phrases, sentences, and paragraphs. Writing is the art of intricately arranging words. Writing can be a profession or a hobby. However, it is often thrown under the bus. A writer is not very appreciated, and he/she is substantially disregarded. When a writer is undermined, the eloquence of their tone supposedly becomes destructed; the complexity of their analogies supposedly becomes simplified; the overall message supposedly becomes meaningless. A writer would be oblivious towards how society perceives them, hence why “supposedly” was used.
Writers Are Activists
Advocates come in many shapes and forms. People are knowledgeable of the activists that are on social media and in social movements that occur frequently. Little do people know that activists do not always need to physically put themselves out there for everyone to watch. Writers are literal advocates that hide under the guise of their writing. Their pieces are pieces of advocacies. Writers are not necessarily activists of social justice issues; they can advocate for any universal theme that interconnects everyone. Ironically, writers do not need to fight for their freedom of expression since they are liable for that. No oppressive figure deprives them of their expression since they are in this alternative world.
The Effect on Their Mental Health
Due to the pandemic, it has been shown that writers have been undervalued. Any human being would want external validation at some point. A human needs occasional or constant reassurance that they are valid. Likewise, writers can feel insecure about sharing their grief, sorrowness, passion, elation, or wrath because they might think that many people would possibly not empathize with them. That would render them very hopeless, taking a huge toll on their mental health. Nonetheless, writers have a high inclination of experiencing depression throughout their lives, and that is due to utter rejection and social isolation. A writer can estrange themself from the society they are in to dive into their alternative world.
A Writer Is Their Own Person
As an avid writer, I can confirm that writers are indeed underappreciated. When people ask me about my hobby, I always say that it is writing. After hearing that, they always glare at me or ridiculously look at me asking if that is my true hobby. Invalidating someone’s hobby can make the person feel invalid themselves since their hobby is being scorned. As a writer who has experienced that, I never considered people’s responses as a threat to me nor did it ever affect me. A writer does not write for the people; a writer writes for themselves. They may desire validation on occasions, but a writer should have a clear mindset about why they wish to become a writer in the first place.
Writers are doing everyone a favor, for they are conveying messages that many people would be afraid to convey. That means that writers have dignity, faith, and devotion. They are vastly devoted to their own ideologies and beliefs to the extent where they would usually never write pieces that are not correlated to their own beliefs. Not to mention that there are many types of writers. Students, teachers, journalists, historical figures, politicians, and more all fall under the umbrella term “writer”.