I'd like to think it will help some other people on the road of life, and perhaps make better life decisions, but that's not the real reason, just a bonus that may not even be there. No, I write these essays for myself. I'm trying to work on myself as a person, find myself as it were. A have a jumble of thoughts and ideas going on in my head everyday, and I figure I try to organize them and write them down, it will help clear up the uncertainty in my life. I don't know if it will work, but I'm hoping that something good can come out of it. Maybe it will be improving my own life... or maybe it'll be someone elses.
Part of the problem though is that I may be in one mood when I start an essay, take a break or something, then come back in a different mind set, so an essay may take an unexpected turn. You should be able to spot these mood swings, I'm sure they're obvious.