Peggy has given the green light for the final entry for AW’s blogchain #6, and I am honoured to be the one to do it. In her post, she mentioned why she started her blog. I started mine because I wanted to share a piece of my individuality globally.
Throughout this chain, some of the glorious AW’ers have shared their reasons for writing and how they ended up on that path. It was sparked by Talia Mana’s question: Do you ever wonder what you might be doing if you had taken a different turn of the road?
Although a valid question, it’s not one that I really ask myself because in many ways, I’m still not quite sure what I am doing.
Heh.
I am being serious. I’ve established my likes and dislikes. And my strengths and capabilities — that I am the creative type rather than the practical type. And so on. It still hasn’t enabled me to pinpoint exactly what it is that I am supposed to be doing.
In this context, I define doing as my life purpose (outside of being the best wife and mother that I can be). (Maybe that’s stating the obvious.) (No, I’m not pregnant.)
Those that know me half well will know that I like to write. But perhaps that will never go beyond the hobby stage. I don’t know. In time, the professional writing course that I’m enrolled in will help me to answer that.
And now I seemed to have complicated things (as I don’t want to neglect my writing) by enjoying my camera just a little too much. I’m going to take advantage of this by capturing the shit out of Italy (on my upcoming trip). Then I can come up with the world’s seventeen billionth travel book. Except it will be personalised with Jen-Prose. Would you buy it? I hope you will.
From that perspective, it’s not so complicated because it’s a way that I can combine writing with photography. We’ll have to see what happens there…
An article that I read last year said that some people go through three or four career changes in their lifetime. It really shocked me, but I felt better about my indecisiveness and procrastination.
So, my life purpose hasn’t been locked in yet. I’m okay with that. I know I’ll decide when I’m ready. There are worse things that could be happening to me: I could be forgetting to enjoy my life, I could be rejecting opportunities for learning, I could be choosing not to celebrate my talents at all…
Follow the entire chain:
TaliaMana
Peregrinas
IndianRaj
Just a Small Town Girl
A View From the Waterfront
Southern Expressions
Mad Scientist Matt
Organized Chaos
At Home, Writing
Writing From Within
Pass the Torch
BCOM
Fireflies in the Cloud
Sounds of Serenity
Kappa no He
Infinite Vanity
Gillian Polack
Of Chapters and Reels
Curiouser and curiouser
The Road Less Traveled
Livien
This entry is part of the awchain – round 6. Here are my entries from round 1, and round 2 and round 3.
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