One has to tame an animal to become its master, a good essay too needs just that. Writing any essay is an easy task but to write the best, one needs immense patience and perseverance. The topic of the essay as such plays the vital role here.Once you are able to comprehend the topic, your job is half done. I have seen people starting off without a clear understanding of the topic and eventually finding that their essays and the topics were way too far from each other. In a world which is moving fast (with the top speed of newer cars raising the bar each time!!) one can find very little time to give serious thought to the task at hand. But essays require more concentration. I would say more than that needed for reading an interesting book. It asks for your mind and heart to be in sync with each other to write what you feel with the right words in an organised manner.
I hope life was easier than what it appears to be, as there is always a person in our life who complicates things. There are people who take lot of pains to fill an essay with words that are fresh out of dictionary. Some of them are god-gifted wordworms! Majority of the readers would never have heard these words, leave their meaning. If it were not for these gentlemen, there would not be a special dictionary for the most difficult words in English. Thanks to the wordworms, English dictionaries are becoming fatter.
Essays try to connect you with the world other than you. It is one tool which makes you think what matters to you the most in you and apart from you too. By taking you through a sea of thoughts, essays make you take the effort to think and re-think your stand on the given topic. When the topic is somethingwhich involves incidents in your life, it acts as mirror. It is nothing but YOU in YOUR own words. You would find these topics to be the most demanding, as they can hit you right on your face. Writing about oneself is where introspection is at its best.
The various other topics which include burning social and political issues depend on the writer's knowledge about these topics. Even then, the major drawback i see in these essays is the ignorance of finer details and the validity of the assumptions or even stated facts. The writer promotes his opinions based on these assumptions or facts derived from various media. Such a written discourse suffers from authenticity. I am not to blame these writers as they would indeed be able to support their writings with sufficient proof. But the REAL picture would only be recorded in the minds of the ones involved in these issues. One of them has to be the godfather for such an exposition.
I cannot help but praise those who are able to do this daunting task with relative ease. It's one thing to write an essay, it's another to prepare for it.
