Dylan+Roark

From Mind to Paper Words are usually a form of communication; a way to get your point across and exchange information. But people don’t usually think of the arrangements of words to have beauty. The way I see it, beauty is everywhere. Beauty is the light shining in through the window. Beauty is color. Beauty is diversity. I have made it my passion in life to write about every beautiful piece of life and aspire to publish my writing for others to appreciate the beauty I see, also. I’ve enjoy writing since I was very young, but it was not until recently that I have become very passionate about it. I started off just writing down my thoughts. After that I began writing song lyrics, which is when I figured out that I loved the rhyming aspects of writing and it also allowed me to be very creative and express myself. This led up to my aspiration of writing my own novel. I decided that I wanted to take experiences in my life in put them into a fictional story. I also wanted to take significant people I have met throughout my life and put their personalities into characters in my book. When I was young, I was never very good at communicating with others. I didn’t have the same way of thinking as other kids my age, so I didn’t participate in any sports or extracurricular activities until middle school (when I finally broke out of my shell). When I found writing in 6th grade, I realized that it was the only thing I have ever been good at. Since I was a hermit child and didn’t like to leave the house very much, I spent most of my time inside working on different pieces of poetry. It wasn’t until a few years later that I started working on lyrics and short stories. I was inspired by stories from Stephen King (strangely enough) and R.L. Stine. I loved the idea of bizarre, out of this world stories. My favorite part about their stories was that you could turn the plot into virtually anything you wanted to. Once I figured out that I wanted to spend the rest of my life writing, I also set a goal for myself. I wanted my writing to change people’s lives. I wanted my work to be famous, to be looked back on for years to come and studied in classrooms. I aspired to inspire. My favorite part about writing was to be able to relate to so many other people and to finally have a connection with the rest of the world. The feeling of not being so emotionally alienated from the world gave me hope that I could accomplish anything. I felt alive and ready to experience anything that could come my way. It is hard to appreciate the small things in life when I felt I was the only one who feels the way I do. And when I couldn’t appreciate the small things in life, there was no hope of me ever succeeding with the anything I wanted to accomplish. It is relieving to know that I am now part of a population that appreciates the world for the small beauties it holds, and of a population of writers who want to reminisce about it. Life in itself is so fulfilling. The one thing you have to figure out on your own is what makes you happy and to actually appreciate it for what it’s worth. I have found my passion and I have deep aspirations. Writing will take me far in life as well as my drive to pursue it. I will strive to always be open to new sights and experiences as long as I am alive to write about it. I could not think of a single other thing in life that makes me as happy as writing does and I would feel repressed without this way of communicating. I hope and prey that every person finds their passion to be as meaningful as writing is to me. These two pages are not the end of my paper, but simply a small piece of a very long paper. **My paper will end the day I end my life in this world and start life in a new one. **