I’m thankful I’m a writer because…
I believe in my heart that writers experience the world differently. I believe that writers, through the act of chronicling and the act of imagination have a connection to life that makes it different somehow, like being able to see the patterns in things and thus understand why things happen and appreciate it.
I’m thankful I am a writer because it kept me company while I was a latchkey kid. I was always alone but I was never alone. I could create entire worlds and people to fill them. I would imagine great battles and love stories and a million versions of myself growing up into different lives.
I’m thankful I’m a writer because of that sensation I get when I see my work in print. Those words, first formed between my ears and now thrust out into the world to be examined, appreciated, even ridiculed.
I am thankful I am a writer because it taught me to recognize bad storytelling and to appreciate that for what it is. A well told story is a waterfall. A poorly told story is a drainage ditch and each have their purpose.
I am thankful I’m a writer because it allows me to experience other writers in a way most readers do not. I see them at their mot vulnerable–before the words have been carefully placed and polished. That experience–the taking part in the building of such things–is perhaps the most valuable of all.
Some Thoughts:
- If pets are truly reflections of their owners, I wonder how much of me is reflected in my old and lazy dog?
- Writers who drank heavily include: F. Scott Fitzgerald.