What does writing do?

What does writing do exactly? Does it resurrect? Does it immortify persons and feelings? Does it bury, like a favorite book of mine once said? I want to believe all three. I want to say that it does all three because I want it to. I want to write about people and feelings and say, "Thank God I finally got that out. Now it will stop bothering me." But does it really? Is writing about something that hasn't happened and writing it out in full every wish and want that you have for that certain scenario enough to bury it away forever so that it can live on in cyberspace, and more importantly, your own memory? Does the idea truly die within you? Or does it ressurect those feelings again and again and again and drive you crazy?

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