LL: Introuducing a new sector of LL - Tuesdays Honesty. Posting frank | personal | funny | serious opinions . . . anything, but with a candid (and hopefully not too blunt) twist. And it's not very hard to figure out that it'll be a Tuesday post!
I was recently inspired to write again (story #3 for a rainy day) – hence that Lucky
Locket came to fruition. Writing, and expressing within it, has intense emotions with deep gratifications. One can become consumed in not only the magic, but the ability to
form, shape and make anything possible with the simple use of words. Pen to
paper. Finger to keyboard. Perhaps too simple. But for me, writing has always
enabled myself to express the core of my affections and recollect on integral
parts of my life which may shed from my memory as the years pass. They’ve been recorded in a bank of pages, sitting on my screen
for over a year and meant to be a special gift to those who guided me in one
of the most devastating yet liberating chapters of my life. In those dark days,
writing kept the dim light inside alive and almost clasped onto my sanity. It
kept me going. Kept me on the road ahead. It reminds me of a time I never
thought there was any hope. And now, these words are beginning to see the light and are coming out of the cracks.
I remember how I always dreamed of becoming writer (don't you just love looking back at your childhood dreams, I was quite the dreamer. But then again, I still am). Seeing
my name in the New York Times Bestseller list. I once told a classmate during a
gymnasium class that I felt my life was important and needed to be remembered. I
was 17. It amazes me to think that I thought that’s all that was truly
significant in my life – what I had done and recovered from in the short 17
years. That young naive girl did not know that what was ahead, it was more she
could have imagined or even written about.
Even so, writing has always been second nature to me and a gift I rely
on to openly articulate anything in the most passionate and eloquent
way. I have this deep connection with the words on paper or the lyrics once
written for a song. The lyrics of my own emotions and words I so long to
express in person. Sometimes I wish the words could project as brightly and shine through
my spoken words as they do on paper.
Hopefully as LL grows, I can brighten your day, make you shine and
share something so much more than just words on paper, or in this case - on a screen.
