By C. J. Stegall-Evans
Have you had a job where you get to literally fall in love every day. Well that’s what being a writer is like on a good day. Writers touch people with their words. So, if you are reading and you can feel what the author means imagine what him or her felt. Writing is challenging because there is so much emotion attached to it.
Although this emotion is good for writing it sometimes makes one a bit too sensitive for everyday life. When most people build walls, being a writer means being open to the world around you and allowing it to filter in so you may make an interpretive expression of it. Writer’s like all persons who can’t face the world anesthetize with drugs and alcohol. Sometimes writers can’t even face writing.
Yes, some writers run away from their profession. That’s because they don’t always choose it; it becomes this all encompassing thing they have to do to satisfy some need buried deep within. Writing is a beautiful obsession that allows one to feel words as if they were a texture.
Putting words on a page gives one a unique sense of comfort. Being a writer is doing that one thing that brings you the most joy every day. In fact, I even enjoy on writing on days like today when my mind is elsewhere and the words don’t come easy.
Being such a lover of words does not always bring a lot of financial stability, meaning some of us have to keep our day job a bit longer than we like, but it does fill your spirit. Filling your spirit is what makes life worth living; it warms and fills that empty void that we all carry within us.
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