Hello said the cursor, we are at it again. You and me working together to fill in the gaps that exist between thought and expression.
Even as you read these words you are allowed to visualize the tiny little thing blinking away on some screen, patiently bearing the pregnant pauses that punctuate its progress every time a new sentence is born. It’s strange to describe the way in which one writes and even stranger to choose it as a way of introducing yourself to someone. But Candid Expressions is not someone and introducing a student’s journal to the students for whom it exists is itself a strange proposition.
So let’s start at the very beginning, Candid Expressions came into being 5 years ago but to tell you the truth it comes alive every time the process described above happens. Candid is all about celebrating the written word, but it’s also much more than that. Candid is celebrating the ability to think independently and express freely. Why ‘thought’ you may ask, afterall you can write a few grammatically correct sentences and bingo it’s done. So why make such a big deal about it. Simply because no one won a noble prize for an answer they wrote in an exam. Reproducing someone’s else ideas intelligently is valuable (if marks are an indicator of value) but it is not invaluable. What is invaluable is the ability to learn from your own life and to express ideas that have come to you through hard work (sorry guys but cramming is not the kind of hard work being referred to). At the same time it is also the ability express those views which you believe to be right, with a courage and conviction that is your own. Indeed writing is one of the most educative exercises invented by human beings. They say life is a journey not a destination. Nothing can more appropriately describe the act of writing. And words are only the end product, much more goes into it than what meets the eye ( literally). Just as a painting is not random brush strokes written pieces are not arbitrary words strung together, they are an accumulation of impulses that may have their source inside or outside of yourself.
We would like to clarify that our objective in glorifying our noble pursuit is not to get you to send in more articles than we can publish but to- in every sense of the word- inspire thought. You may one day realize that thought is not enough and we hope that in your wanting to work with the blinking cursor you would keep the idea of Candid Expressions alive.
