Writing is always something I would love to do for a living. I've heard that a true writer will not be fully satisfied doing anything else but writing. I totally resonate with that. I have, and am working through a bit of a commitment issue (It's taken me a long time to come to a place where I can say that shame free) and part of my breakthrough is committing to write. I'm currently reading Dr. Brené Brown's Daring Greatly; so far she is everything everyone has hollered about and on target.
I've been writing for as long as I was able but until I started this blog a couple years ago, I didn't share with anyone really. A few close friends knew but I never stuck with anything. I'd start a book and not finish. I'd write a song and actually sing it around the house but after I heard a few snickers, I didn't do that anymore. I'm a couple months away from being 27-years-old and I have completed a screenplay and started on another, written numerous songs and poems and have shared them with a small handful of my good friends and family. I don't want to live in the shadows. That is, not coming from an ego place but a place of wanting to do all I've come to earth to do. Share my story and relate to others through relationship and communication. I've been terrified to share myself with the world. Anxious about whether or not I'll be liked or accepted. In a previous blog I wrote about putting my pride aside and being fearless. That was only one layer of the everyday growing and learning Ericka.
I believe in my heart and soul that I can now step out. I can show my tender skin and not stay covered by the thick textured armor the world helped me build over time. Vulnerability will be my teacher and friend and I will work hard to thrive in an environment that only sees it as a weakness.
Do what you love and love what you do, life is too short not to. That’s just what I say.
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