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Writers manipulate words into persuasive arguments, tear-jerking novels, abstract poetry, alluring performances and yet still, true experience trumps all recreations. The enormity of experience cannot be captured by language, at least if it can, I have yet to experience it. I believe more in the cliché that ‘a picture is worth a thousand words’, but even a thousand pictures (or a video) lack the ability to capture the excitement, serenity or overwhelming enormity of a moment. I do not possess the creative writing skill or the emotional capacity to transform my experiences from brain to paper, music, speech or any other communicative forms. A re-enactment is the only way for someone else to experience the same experience, yet they do not have the same history so cannot understand the full experience that the writer tried to share. How does the writer know how to capture the reader’s interest and emotions to help their attempt (pathos!) at a recreation of an important meaning to them. Real-life experience, in person, clashes no many sensations together that the writer may not even notice all the factors contributing to the experience, or notice how much each of those factors changes the overall feeling of the moment. I for one would be disappointed if writing was an easy way to share experience because then even less people would go out and have those experiences for themselves. Experience crucially impacts life by its tendency to make people crave more and more places and feelings, contributing to the quality of life for those who seek to experience all that life has to offer. To gain so much experience just by reading about it makes it unnecessary to live in the real world; it would be too similar to virtual reality, false experience, leading to boredom with everyday incidents because extraordinary ones would be available by a click or by opening a book. If that were possible, experiences would mean less, ergo it is essential that experience stays genuine.