Hello everyone On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 10:21 PM, david buchanan <[email protected]> wrote: > > > And personally, nothing seemed worth doing until I decided to go back to > school to study philosophy. I wanted to be passionate about something but > everything seemed boring. Then I met McWatt and Pirsig and it dawned on me > how much that would be. That was six years ago, I just finished school and it > surely has been fun so far. : Dan:
I think that is so cool. Really. I am proud to know a guy like you, Dave. Not that we really know each other, being as we never actually met... but I feel we do know each other in a way. It is a wonderful experience to find one's passion... that thing that makes life worth while... that thing that you'd rather be doing than anything else. It is different for all of us. Some people seem to find it in the regular work-a-day world but I've never been that fortunate. For me.. it is writing. Not just any writing... I write fictional stories. And if someone takes them as real life (which happens all the time even though I clearly state it is fiction)... all the better. I've known my passion for writing for a long time but life always seemed like it had a habit of getting in the way. I've never gone to school to study writing but I know what is good and what isn't. And slowly, over the years, I've learned ways to write better. And now at this stage in my life (the kids are grown and gone... I've no one depending upon me), I've been able to slim things down enough that I can work part time and devote most of my time to reading and writing. Writers read, of course. And I find the more my writing evolves, the more I read. And the more I read, the more I write. It is all a cycle... Anyway, I just wanted to let you know that I think it is so cool that you are doing what you're doing. Thank you, Dan Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
