“ The Long Way “ -My History of Written Works-

When I was a little girl, I loved listening to my grandmother’s old stories. Her stories excited my imagination. After I began to learn how to write letters and characters, I also came to love writing. Writing in my small notebook, the stories that I imagined, was my favorite hobby. I have loved writing since then.

However I didn’t like to write compositions in my Japanese class very much, because I was given themes and had to finish writing it on the time specified. I wanted to write compositions freely according to my imagination. My compositions I wrote in my Japanese classes weren’t nice, but ones I wrote at my home and in the composition club, won a price in school competitions. My works was included on the book that shows a collection of essays and articles written by elementally school students, and which was distributed to schools in Kyoto city. One of my compositions was broadcasted by the local radio station, once when I was in the sixth grade.

As I reached puberty, when I was a junior high school student, suddenly I stopped writing compositions and began to keep a diary. I loved writing my feelings on my diary. I dreamed to be a novelist secretly at that time, even though I had never showed my written works. When I majored in American literature in my university, I was ambitious to be a famous and popular novelist.

It was on a social networking site (SNS) that I began to write my opinions and feelings. Since then, I got many SNS friends, they read my writing works and gave me their comments. I loved using SNS and I wrote many essays and some short novels. I just enjoyed writing and collecting comments about it.

Recently I had an opportunity to think why I write essays. I realized that writing essays makes my mind clear, moreover it allows me to reflect on myself. I love writing as much as when I was a little girl. Now I enjoy writing freely according to my imagination. I think writing enriches my life.