The author took to heart the recommendation by a kind teacher, who years before had said to her and her fellow students, "Write down your thoughts and dreams. Write your hopes, your fears, your success, your failure. Write words, write paragraphs. Write poems. As the years go by, and you look back, reading what you have written, you will see that they are not only words, they are you, the you that used to be, the you that still is. Write it now, and look back at yourself in years to come. You might miss the you that once was. If you write, you will find the you that once was is still there in your words." Write your own thoughts, poems, prayers, words, paragraphs. Write you.