Throughout one's life, especially in their teenage years, people tend to change what they want to do for the rest of their life. Personally, mine has gone from veterinarian to doctor and then to having no idea what I enjoyed more than anything else. Recently, I figured out my two dominating passions: reading and writing. So what better dream job should I do more than becoming an author.

Yes, authors do not make a lot of money. Writing can't be my main job, but it combines two things I love into one. I don't care that I wouldn't get paid a lot if I became an author. All that I care about is that I would be doing something I love. If I have to get another job while I write, so be it, but it wouldn't come close in importance to my writing.

I keep telling myself that I will not stop trying until I get that one publisher and editor that says, "Yes." That may only take a few years, or it might take decades until I reach that moment, but I am willing to wait. Some may say that someone who wants to pursue a future as an author has a one-in-bazillion chance of making it, but that just means that I have to try harder.

I fell in love with reading when I picked up "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone," and since then, I would read as much as I could. I was going at a slow pace at first, but now I can get through almost 50 books a year. I always get emotionally involved with the books I read. I feel as if I have an emotional tether to the characters, and whatever happens to them feels like it's happening to me. Sometimes if I am in a tough place, I ask myself, "What would [insert main character's name here] do?"

As the years passed since I read "Harry Potter," I started to mature. In seventh grade, I was always thinking that I wanted others to feel the way I do when I read, because the feeling is so amazing I can't even describe it. That is what made me realize that if I could make people feel that indescribable feeling, I would do it. That is what made me want to be an author, along with the writing assignments that my language arts teacher assigned us very often. That is also when I discovered my passion for writing.

Ever since that language arts class in seventh grade, I have been writing as much as I can. I've written poems, short stories and have even started writing an actual book. There are definitely mistakes that I have made here and there, but I know that the more I write, the better I will become.

Writing allows me to do whatever I want. I can create my own world or build off of this one. I can create my own creature, species or even new words. I can build my own character, piece by piec,e until I reach to the smallest detail. Creating something is what drives a writer's mind, and their imagination is what drives the creation.

So being an author won't make me have the most money or have a bunch of free time, but I will be doing the thing I love, and there is nothing that can stop me from achieving that dream. I have had so many inspirational authors who have further inspired me to become an author. Cassandra Clare, Veronica Roth and Rick Riordan are some that I would like to thank so much for their inspiration.

It's not that the money matters to me or what other people think I should be doing with my life, but what truly matters is harnessing the ability for me to make people feel an amazing rush like I do when I read an amazing book. It's the feeling of readers that really, really makes me want to succeed.