Dear Unsealers,
Life has its twists turns and everything in between, I know you do not know me or my story, but I sure hope that this helps in any way possible.
I hope this answers the question,
What is a time in your life where you thought about quitting something you love, but instead preserved.
I was 13 years old when I found my love for writing, I would write for hours, trying to get out of my head a little creating versions of me that do not exist. I wanted to gain my fathers reactions from these poems. I would bother my teachers, family members, even my neighbors to read what I wrote. I felt accomplished to find that the ones who read them actually enjoyed them.
At the same time, I got the feedback that changed my outlook on everything, that being what caused me to throw away everything I ever wrote. The comment was, “you cannot write unless it’s happy things.”
This haunts me the most, because I was not the happiest, but at the same time I knew it was what the family member thought was helpful for me. Within a month, I had secret notebooks filled with variations of multiple versions of me and what I felt and went through as a teenager who was bullied a lot by my peers. Hiding my notebooks, actually went on until I was 16 years old, at that time I decided to start writing a romance novel.
I would continuously be grounded for various reasons, but I was able to write my novel until I was 18 years old in which I finished at chapter 20, and I put writing on hold to take care of my first born child. I eventually started to dabble into online writing contests, and poundered about writing another novel.
I say all of this, to give you this wisdom. Don’t let one person’s opinion dictate your goals and ambition, one day you will look up and say wow, I feel accomplished and it’s because I believed in myself, and not the changing world around me.