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Should everyone write?

As I start my writing journey, I am beginning to think whether everyone should write or not. Isn't writing a skill that we acquire over time? If yes, why can't everyone acquire that skill? After all, it requires interest, patience, perseverance, consistency and above all acceptance that we can fail as a writer. But just because someone can write well, can everyone convey a topic in a meaningful way evoking interest in the minds of the readers? I think that may not be possible. Otherwise, we should have thousands of writers. May be we have so many but not everyone reads everybody's writings. We choose our authors based on our interests, our emotion, someone's recommendations, and many more.  It is an undisputable fact that all of us undergo different life experiences. Our learnings from those experiences decide and shape who we are. So when we really want to write, those learnings certainly come to our help. However, choice of words, sentence structure, content, size and...