<p>I'm intending to write an essay on a family illness, one that required hospitalization and much trauma for me. Would this be a cliched topic to use? Obviously, the essay will be quite meaningful, but I'm worried that it could be too "common" since many other people write on the same topic.</p>
<p>There are no cliche topics.</p>
<p>There are only cliche treatments of topics.</p>
<p>It doesn't matter how many other people have written about an illness. What matters is that your essay be personal, detailed, honest and revealing about you.</p>
<p>Personal, detailed, honest, revealing. Something that only you could write.</p>