WHO SAYS WRITING CAN’T BE HARDER THAN BRAIN SURGERY?

This is a topic I was discussing just a few minutes ago, and I do feel very strongly about it, even if it is a tad silly. But mostly not! I was in the car taking to my brother and my friend about how I want to be a journalist or a writer of some type when I grow up because, hey, writing is what I love to do. I do it every day. Sometimes I do it for school, sometimes for myself, sometimes for a reader, sometimes for all three. I, at least, think I’m not half bad at it, and it comes as a great challenge. And as I am going on about this, my brother (who is four years my junior) says that being a neurosurgeon is much harder than being a writer. I said no, because (for the most part) you can read enough about brain surgery and learn enough about it so that you can pretty much do it. At med school, they don’t actually let you touch people’s heads (or fake ones, I wouldn’t know) before you read enough about it. You can predict what you are going to do step-by-step for every single surgery, for the most part. Writing, however, you can never learn from a book. You can really only become any good at all by practicing. You will never really know exactly what you are going to do in writing, because things like emotions and mood and state of mind affect what you’re going to write (or not write) that particular day, moment, or second. Writing is so unpredictable and sporadic that you will never know exactly what you are getting yourself into. That’s the beauty of it, I think. And (hopefully) brain surgery isn’t unpredictable or sporadic. Just imagine that.

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A/N: Writing this essay was done on a total sport of emotions, so I would really appreciate it if you reviewed or PMed me to tell me whether or not you agree. Thanks! Gemma