“Personal essays represent what you think, what you feel . . . your effort to communicate those thoughts and feelings to others . . .  What is the point of your essay? Don’t belabor the point too much; let the point grow out of the experience of the essay. It might be true, in fact, that you didn’t even have a point to make when you started writing your essay. Go ahead and write it and see if a point develops.” — Essay.Grammar.com