Recently, I was reading through a group chat and comments. It felt like not a single message was truly written by a person. Everything sounded robotic like it had been written by AI. Sometimes, I wondered if the thoughts themselves were even original. I think we’re slowly losing something important: our real voice.

There’s a certain honesty in raw writing. Even with small grammatical mistakes, it feels real. You can sense the person behind the words. But when everything is rewritten, with words like “tranquil,” “hues,” or “upheaval,” it starts to feel artificial. In reality people don’t speak like that at all. We don’t throw in random adjectives do we?. We struggle to express feelings, we search for the right words and that effort is what makes us human.

AI is powerful, no doubt, I am not against it. It helps us with brainstorming, helps us break writer’s block, and generates ideas quickly. I think it’s a remarkable creation. But there’s something it still can’t fully capture that is lived experience. It hasn’t felt what we’ve felt. It hasn’t lived our lives. Because of that, it sometimes misses the subtle, imperfect essence that makes writing truly human.

Maybe the real challenge now is not to write perfectly but to write honestly.

-Divya Priya Rajalingam