So what do you want to be when you grow up? I wanted to be a ballerina, a lawyer and an interior decorator. In college I wanted to be a marine scientist until I took chemistry. Then I didn’t know what I wanted to be, but I got a degree in English because that was what I was good at.
Through it all, the one thing I did was write. Before I knew my alphabet, I would fill any blank piece of paper I came across with squiggles and swirls that looked kind of like lines of words in a book. When my older brother learned his letters, he would pick out things that looked kind of like an “l” or an “i” or maybe an “e.” I was beyond thrilled when he found actual letters in my scribbles.
I wrote letters and short (very short) stories and poems. Eventually I wrote things that were kind of coherent. In college I published poems in the school journal and articles in the school newspaper. I wrote news releases, freelanced and I was a newspaper reporter for a couple of years. One day I had a poem published in an actual book. Then a couple of more in journals and magazines. And so I wrote a book. I realized that if I could string together all the words I’d written thus far I’d have many books. How hard could it be?
Well, kind of hard. But honestly, I don’t think I can help writing. So why not a book? And why not another one? Maybe someone will even read them someday. I’m still growing up every day, still figuring out what I want to do and be. But the one thing I can’t imagine NOT doing is writing. Thank goodness it’s not hang gliding.
Q4U – What’s the one (or two) things you can’t imagine not doing? Is that what you want to do when you grow up?
Love the picture, but it’s the wrong one for the post…
I can’t imagine not reading… anything and everything!
Can’t imagine not having been a nurse… the way it used to be to be a nurse..
Yeah, somewhere there’s one of me burrowing in the laundry you were sorting in the hall with my stash of “papers” close at hand. This is the one I could find!