I remember teachers examining what writing means, why it's important, and how it influences each person. Today, writing is more important to me than ever because I feel opportunities to be a writer are limited.
I wish I could go back to every English classroom I've been in and linger over words, write analyses of authors' uses of literary techniques - just be present - not be thinking about whatever boyfriend I had at the time or how depressed I felt, but rather how the words made me feel, how the words connected me to others. Now, as I sit at a lonely reception desk, I wish I could be challenged by the configurations of poetic forms and the themes of Faulkner.
God, please give this writer a chance to write. Please give me endurance to write the story I've always dreamed of...
