Vent away, dear memoir.

Memoirs can be found everywhere. You walk into Barnes & Noble, and there is always a new memoir out about some politician or famous author. But the celebrities and well-known are not the only ones who write memoirs. Normal people do too. People with regular, average lifestyles. Like Richard Wright, he had quite a lot to write about. His childhood was a struggle, and he dreamed of bigger and better things, which often times dragged him down even further. However, he still wrote that memoir of his life. Why? You ask. Well, I think that it is because people live their lives to connect with others. They want more ways to communicate. They want to relate with each other! Think if no one could relate to anyone else. You would never be able to ask for advice, never be able to understand, never be able to learn. Your life would be pretty much pointless. Despite all of this pessimism however, people do connect, relate and learn from each other. Memoirs are sometimes written to entertain a crowd, or tell about a life-changing story. However, they are also written to connect with everyone. Anyone can pick up a memoir about someone they don't even know, or have never heard of, and feel an instant connection with them because they have felt what the author has felt, and they can relate. That feeling that you're not alone, and someone else understands what you're feeling and thinking is an awesome feeling. And memoirs help people attain that sometimes unreachable feat. Telling our own stories helps us reach this "goal". It's almost like venting, where you can just tell someone all of your worries and thoughts and in return, you feel as if a weight has been lifted off of your shoulders. There is so much power in writing memoirs, because for some people, it sincerely helps release all of that pressure that has built up for days, months, and years. This on-going connecting and relating is something that is definitely helped by the writing of memoirs, not only for the author, but for every person that reads it too.