When I was in middle school, all I did was read and write. Eat, sleep, read, write, repeat. Day in and day out until I hit high school. When I started high school my life changed. Friends changed and so did the atmosphere.
To me starting high school was like starting a new life and that meant being a new person. A totally new person. And that meant I stopped doing a lot of things. I stopped playing sports and writing. I stopped painting and drawing. I changed my hair. I stopped talking to a lot of people. But out of all of those things, the only thing I regret is not writing.
And now here I am three years later with the biggest regret of my life.
Writing had always been my biggest outlet. I loved creating. Being able to write and make a totally different person of myself was the most amazing thing that I had done at the time.
Three years ago I wrote about fiction and someone else’s life but this time I’m writing about mine and it’s a whole new ball field.
A few months ago my friend had started writing for the Odyssey and she loved it. Week after week I read her articles and craved that type of creativity again. So that’s what I got.
She helped me apply and walked me through the first few steps. And that’s where it all began.
Here I am writing my fifth article for the Odyssey and I could not be happier with my writing. It comes so naturally and doesn't take me long to write a lengthy article. Five weeks ago I was certain that my passion was not going to ever come back until I wrote that first article and read all of the feedback on it.
In all honesty, the writing was never something I had considered getting back into. My main goal has been medicine, but once I started writing again my passion for medicine got even bigger. Writing has made studying in the medical field easier.
A big part of the medical field is reading and writing which I don't think that many people think of. But think about it how do they know who you are and what is wrong. They write it in your chart. What is the first thing a doctor does when they walk into the room? They read your chart. There is a massive correlation between the two subjects.
Yes, medicine is the most important thing in my life besides my family, but I think that writing is definitely up there with it.
