So theme, well this post is going to be quite short as my main life goal is simple. I want to be an author.
Plain and simple.
All my life writing fiction was the one thing that I kind-of knew how to do and it always made me feel good. In this community where all my friends and family have been trained to say that they want to be, a) A doctor or b) a business person, being able to stand there and say 'I WRITE STORIES AND I WILL DO FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE!' is pretty darn cool to me.
I think this all stems from my love of literature; books, novels, poems (to some extent), they all hold like this magical key that can unlock closed off sections of your mind. They can help you imagine things you could never fathom before, help you imagine places you'd never thought you could go. This is one of the main reasons I want to be an author, I want to help create scenarios and safe places where people can just go to escape real life, as some of my favourite books have done for me.
However doing this is going to be difficult and is the reason why I am not applying to do an English literature degree at university as so many other people assume. Yes, I have this love and Yes, I would love to that degree but unfortunately it's not practical, much to my dismay. After University having an Eng Lit. degree, it is increasingly difficult to gain a job. I need money to sit and home and write, and so to do this I am following my other passion, Psychology.
All my life writing fiction was the one thing that I kind-of knew how to do and it always made me feel good. In this community where all my friends and family have been trained to say that they want to be, a) A doctor or b) a business person, being able to stand there and say 'I WRITE STORIES AND I WILL DO FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE!' is pretty darn cool to me.
I think this all stems from my love of literature; books, novels, poems (to some extent), they all hold like this magical key that can unlock closed off sections of your mind. They can help you imagine things you could never fathom before, help you imagine places you'd never thought you could go. This is one of the main reasons I want to be an author, I want to help create scenarios and safe places where people can just go to escape real life, as some of my favourite books have done for me.
However doing this is going to be difficult and is the reason why I am not applying to do an English literature degree at university as so many other people assume. Yes, I have this love and Yes, I would love to that degree but unfortunately it's not practical, much to my dismay. After University having an Eng Lit. degree, it is increasingly difficult to gain a job. I need money to sit and home and write, and so to do this I am following my other passion, Psychology.
I'm planning on doing a Psychology degree so that I can go on to become a lecturer/teacher/experimenter of sorts. Aside from writing, my other favourite thing to do is to learn new and cool things. Very nerdy I know :P
I hope that research that I can undertake in the future will have positive applications to future generations, especially in the fields of abnormalities such as depression and schizophrenia among other mental illnesses. I find that public perception of these topics are very negative and can be debilitating to sufferers and the only way to change this is to teach people so they aren't ignorant any more.
I'll have time to write when I'm not doing that :)
Enjoy the weekend and dftba,
Sim x
I hope that research that I can undertake in the future will have positive applications to future generations, especially in the fields of abnormalities such as depression and schizophrenia among other mental illnesses. I find that public perception of these topics are very negative and can be debilitating to sufferers and the only way to change this is to teach people so they aren't ignorant any more.
I'll have time to write when I'm not doing that :)
Enjoy the weekend and dftba,
Sim x
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