First, I have to admit that I have struggled with writing. Somehow I made it through college without proper writing skills. Therefore, the need to improve my writing is crucial and I have realized that if I am going to improve my writing I need to start writing, and since blogs have become a way to voice opinions, and I am far away from my family and friends, blogging would be the best way to communicate with family and friends while exercising my writing skills.
I also write because I know how important it is to write and voice your opinion. I believe that each one of us have ideas racing through our heads about everything that exist in the world, so I hope to develop a voice from ideas and the imagination, and release them from my mind into the public. I hope that it will develop a community where people can comment on what I write, and develop a community where I can begin to have conversations with others. That to me is the exciting part, is what these conversations and ideas could create. Such ideas to change the world to a better place, can exist with the conversations that are developed when people comment at my blog. I blog in hope to create a community where we can all share our ideas and thoughts, and begin to learn from each other because we need each other. We need to create together in order to accomplish each of our goals and dreams in our lives.
I will leave the rest to John Steinbeck to better illustrate why I blog, and how important it is to create, through whatever element. I look forward to your comments as I try to improve my writing. Welcome to my blog.
Peace,
Jorge Bautista
“Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of a man. Nothing was ever created by two men. There are good collaborations, whether in music, in art, in poetry, in mathematics, in philosophy. Once the miracle of creation has taken place, the group can build and extend it, but the group never invents anything. The preciousness lies in the lonely mind of a man. And now the forces marshaled around the concept of the group have declared a war of extermination on that preciousness, the mind of man. By disparagement, by starvation, by repressions, forced direction, and the stunning hammer blows of conditioning, the free, roving mind is being pursued, roped, blunted, drugged. It is a sad suicidal course our species seems to have taken. And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I might fight against: and idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual. This is what I am and what I am about. I can understand why a system built on a pattern must try to destroy the free mind, for that is the one thing which can by inspection destroy such a system.”
John Steinbeck in East of Eden.
