The Write Story
A vocation is a calling to a particular role or aspect of life.
It is also a story though, the beginning of a chapter, life’s chapter, from which you are forever compelled to turn the pages of, never knowing when the sentence ends or the ink runs dry, but always anticipating a romantic encounter, terrible conflict, beautiful memory or dramatic twist.
Craving this adventure and its passage, I suppose that I opened my eyes a writer, eager to tell my story and embark on my own glorious victory.
A pivotal moment at which I reached a crossroads was the moment of a diagnosis, my mother’s diagnosis. As a chilfd, I could have seen this illness as the final hurdle, the period in the sentence, the end.
However, this chapter was not yet ready to be ended, for the audience had not yet completed its reading. The full-stop became a comma, and I realised with new eyes that I had to tell my stories, the right and the wrong, becauseafter nearly losing a loved one, who knows when we reach the final chapter.
Facing this prospect, I resolved to make it a good one, to take up my pen, sand scribble with love the pages of my history, where finally I had found ‘the write story.’