Are you ever afraid to write? Do you take writing as seriously as Jacques Derrida?
Writing can be a scary thing. Once the words are put on paper, you can not take them back, and you can not deny them. They are there for anyone and everyone across the globe to read, analyze, and make judgements upon. Who would not be afraid to have the entire literate world critique and even tear apart your own ideas, words, and opinions. There is something intimidating about the very act of writing. It publicizes your inner most thoughts and leaves you vulnerable. Derrida makes an interesting point when he says that no one should write anything that he does not mean. Why would anyone ever want to write something that he does not mean? That is what makes writing so terrifying, but at the same time, almost freeing. If you only write what you believe, the worst part is discovering what that actually is. Once that realization occurs, writing should not be as scary - yet it always is.
I thought this was really good until the last sentence. I feel like the whole time you were building up the idea of how the whole world seeing your inner thoughts was a scary thing, but then in the last sentence the message switches to discovering what you believe as the scary part. If that is what you think is the scarier part then I would recommend building up that idea a little more rather then quickly getting it put in the last two sentences.
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