Doing the Unexpected
People might think me predictable...until they meet my Gemini twin...
At first sight, people may think me a typical, working, middle class wife and mother. Raised in small town middle America, that assumption at one time may have been correct. Yet, I've always been just a tad off the beaten path in comparison to many of my friends. For example, I was far older mentally than my years. Raised an only child and generally around a predominance of adults, it was only natural that certain aspects of my personality would be more mature. I could hold a highly intelligent conversation with any adult by the age of 10. But that only child thing also left me a bit introverted, but only in the early couple of decades. It was during that period that I cultivated this writing gene.
By the age of twenty I was working in a hospital and had seen more gruesome sights than many of you have likely ever seen in the horror movies. Real life is often far more horrific than fantasy. Trust me here. I quickly grew out of the introvert stage when faced with demanding doctors and the fact that I was pretty damned good at what I did. Finding your niche really adds to the confidence factor.
Then came that wife and mother phase I mentioned. Oh, I stayed in the field of Microbiology, but I branched out away from my writing and experimented with stained glass and other art forms. I still practice those art forms, but the computer has since captured my attentions, and along with it...the reawakening of my writing.
Early in this decade I discovered a writing list that goes back to those teenage years and allows me to once again create fiction that pleases me. And I can share it with these other folks because we share this mutual interest. In the process, I've met some incredible people, made some wonderful lifelong friends, and traveled to new and interesting places. It was a leap of faith initially to venture into this arena and one that I've been thankful for taking since day one.
If you had told me thirty years ago that I would be traipsing off to festivals or meeting a 'second family' through my writing, I'd have thought you in need of psychiatric counseling. Yet, here I am and that's exactly what I'm doing.
My friends at work wonder about this Dawn that they thought they all knew. Seems they didn't know me quite as well as they thought. I think that some of them secretly envy my up and go vacations and the fact that I have some absolutely unbelievable friends in very diverse professions. I know the fact that I take a vacation with some of them as a girls' holiday seems incongruous to some of my female coworkers. They haven't gotten past the 'let's pack up the whole family and drive down to Myrtle Beach...again' mentality. (But then, in all fairness, my husband's profession hasn't lent itself to family vacations for several years now and I earn several weeks a year. His response if 'go, have fun, enjoy...you work hard for the time off.')
Well, I rather like doing the unexpected. Being different, I discovered very long ago, is a good thing. It's not a cookie cutter world out here. Why should I fit into someone else's preconceived mold?
Dawn
At first sight, people may think me a typical, working, middle class wife and mother. Raised in small town middle America, that assumption at one time may have been correct. Yet, I've always been just a tad off the beaten path in comparison to many of my friends. For example, I was far older mentally than my years. Raised an only child and generally around a predominance of adults, it was only natural that certain aspects of my personality would be more mature. I could hold a highly intelligent conversation with any adult by the age of 10. But that only child thing also left me a bit introverted, but only in the early couple of decades. It was during that period that I cultivated this writing gene.
By the age of twenty I was working in a hospital and had seen more gruesome sights than many of you have likely ever seen in the horror movies. Real life is often far more horrific than fantasy. Trust me here. I quickly grew out of the introvert stage when faced with demanding doctors and the fact that I was pretty damned good at what I did. Finding your niche really adds to the confidence factor.
Then came that wife and mother phase I mentioned. Oh, I stayed in the field of Microbiology, but I branched out away from my writing and experimented with stained glass and other art forms. I still practice those art forms, but the computer has since captured my attentions, and along with it...the reawakening of my writing.
Early in this decade I discovered a writing list that goes back to those teenage years and allows me to once again create fiction that pleases me. And I can share it with these other folks because we share this mutual interest. In the process, I've met some incredible people, made some wonderful lifelong friends, and traveled to new and interesting places. It was a leap of faith initially to venture into this arena and one that I've been thankful for taking since day one.
If you had told me thirty years ago that I would be traipsing off to festivals or meeting a 'second family' through my writing, I'd have thought you in need of psychiatric counseling. Yet, here I am and that's exactly what I'm doing.
My friends at work wonder about this Dawn that they thought they all knew. Seems they didn't know me quite as well as they thought. I think that some of them secretly envy my up and go vacations and the fact that I have some absolutely unbelievable friends in very diverse professions. I know the fact that I take a vacation with some of them as a girls' holiday seems incongruous to some of my female coworkers. They haven't gotten past the 'let's pack up the whole family and drive down to Myrtle Beach...again' mentality. (But then, in all fairness, my husband's profession hasn't lent itself to family vacations for several years now and I earn several weeks a year. His response if 'go, have fun, enjoy...you work hard for the time off.')
Well, I rather like doing the unexpected. Being different, I discovered very long ago, is a good thing. It's not a cookie cutter world out here. Why should I fit into someone else's preconceived mold?
Dawn
posted by Dawn | 8:47 PM
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