Journal 54: Literature and Death

I agree with the author of the quotation that literature is the best and most effective way to overcame death. In other words, it is a way to live one’s life. Writing is better than acting in many ways. I do not think acting is a formal way to express one’s feeling or record one has been through. In a sense, one is just acting out another person’s life rather than taking it and transforming into one’s own life. On the other hand, writing is a way of recording a person’s own life. It is evidence that a person has truly lived this life and fully recognized the meaning and importance of it by writing it down. It enables us to remain in the future by leaving something, for example experiences, that is your own. Thus, keeping a journal is the best way to live in the present and remain in the future. In my opinion, photographs, drawings, or even songs can just be a temporary memory of an event. Those kind of expressing methods do not specify the whole process of an experience. Instead, it just gives you a incomplete memory that a person may not even remember that stays in the past.