I chose writing as a vocation.
However, some days, it feels like I’m very detached from the whole world. I feel like I’m not human. I feel crazy. I feel like I’m locked in a dark hole. I reached out to find others and know if they had my own kind of nightmares too.
As a writer do you feel the same way, too?
“Like many others who turned into writers, I disappeared into books when I was very young, disappeared into them like someone running into the woods. What surprised and still surprises me is that there was another side to the forest of stories and the solitude, that I came out that other side and met people there. Writers are solitaries by vocation and necessity. I sometimes think the test is not so much talent, which is not as rare as people think, but purpose or vocation which manifests in part as the ability to endure a lot of solitude and keep working.Before writers are writers they are readers, living in books, through books, in the lives of others that are also the heads of others, in that act that is so intimate and yet so alone.”~ Rebecca Solnit, Flight.
I think I believe in what she said. But as it stands, I'll keep powering on, nonetheless.
