Become a Lawyer They Said, It’ll Be Fun They Said
How chasing “the dream” led me to dread it, and discover its actual meaning
I’ve loved writing for as long as I have been able to read letters. In fact, it’s reading on a daily basis as a child that made me want to start writing. My first short story was written at about age 7, and I briefly remember it being a sequel to a tv show I used to watch.
My entire childhood was spent being consumed by imagination. What laid beyond this reality I was placed in?
Bookshops became my go-to holiday resorts, and books were my tickets to another realm. I never thought reading on quiet, summer days was a unique thing to do until I realized that not everyone likes to indulge in pieces of a tree’s skin that can somehow send them into a hallucinatory trance.
As such, I grew up in a land of fantasy filled with mystical creatures, lands and occurrences. I got to know people I’ll never meet and envision life through a thousand perspectives — perhaps that’s what makes me feel so old at 20 (almost 21).
I attended school while being the book-absorbed kid everyone knows about. While I may not have known about it then, I realize as I look back on those years that I truly was possessed by the literary gods.
