By Vanessa Solis
I have had a love-hate relationship with writing for as long as I can remember. Of course, it is just undesirable to write when it is not for yourself, especially if it's an assignment. High school is where I found my passion for writing, but it was not due to assignments. What inspired me to pick up that pen was my emotions. I was a teenager who just felt too deeply with every emotion. For a while my feelings got the best of me and I did not know how to handle them at all when a curve ball came at me, which felt like too many times. That is when I turned to journaling; it was an escape and release for my feelings that I would keep bottled up inside. The minute that pen hit the paper it was like I was writing miles a minute. It started out with me writing how I felt or how certain things made me feel throughout the day. Over time my journaling changed. Then I made it a must to write out my day even if nothing happened, just as long as I kept that routine up for myself. After a while journaling turned into writing my favorite moments that I would never want to forget, even if it was just a dream. I would wake up and put that pen on the paper. Writing was a new happiness I had found. And as I learned to take better control over my emotions I did not need the journaling as much as I used to, sadly. Of course, I still keep with any kind of writing because it does bring me peace and inspiration. Throughout the years I never thought about writing as a profession but the more I think about it, I would love to have something published. I would start out small with maybe some heartfelt poems, then move onto short stories, and maybe even novels. It really would be a dream to have something published in my name, and create an escape for others with my writing just as it helped me. If I am able to inspire or comfort others with my words that would make me overly ecstatic, to be able to help other individuals like myself.
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