A Tip from Paula

A tip from a very beautiful long gone girl, whose soul beauty is apparent in even her picture and accentuated in a book; she said that if you want to learn to write, start by writing a bad book, anyone can do that. I’ve written before in a blog, and a couple of articles, but never really saw me writing again, never saw I had the ability or anything to say and so I didn’t. But time goes by, and we find ourselves trapped in our jobs and our lives always waiting for the next thing to get us out of the boredom or give us a sense of purpose.

A lucky few of us find their callings early in life, it’s crystal clear to them what they want, or more like what they’re meant to be doing. The rest of us have to fight for it, have to find where our real passion lies, the passion that doesn’t die after two weeks, the passion that makes us continue even when things get hard or boring, that keeps from being lost in details.

A lot of us are either too lazy to dig deep and find it or have just given up and surrendered to everyday life and always feeling there’s an empty part inside them that nothing is filling. It doesn’t have to be huge, your calling, or passion, it doesn’t have to bring fame and money, it just has to make you complete. And even if you don’t find it, you can’t allow your life to pass you by without searching for it, you can’t look back at whatever’s passed from your life and see only settling for less, doing what’s expected and trying to please everybody else.

I’ve been getting this ache recently when I read books, the ache that I wish I had tried this; I wish I had learnt or pursued this and try to find reasons and excuses and thinking it’s too late, but after reading what Paula said about writing, I decided to start here, start by writing a bad article – yup this one – and see where it takes me, maybe no one will read it, maybe I won’t improve, but at least I will not look back and think “I never even gave it a shot.”