life without writing

What would it be like to live in a world where we didn’t communicate with each other? Just imagine walking down the road, never talking to another person that you see. There would be no road signs to tell you which way to go. The efforts to build the roads in fact, would be impossible without hundreds of people combining their efforts to achieve one common goal. In order to for all people involved to understand what the goal may be, there must be a common platform of communication that can be used by one person, and interpreted by others. Whether we are reading a book or an article, checking our news feeds on Facebook, or looking at a road sign, we can all decode what the language is telling us. In my early childhood, My grandmother read me the newspaper everyday. I would babble along as if I was the one telling the story. I understood quickly that she was simply looking at the symbols and somehow deciphering them into the smooth sentences that she spoke. I became obsessed with unravelling the mystery reading for myself.

As early as I can remember I was honing my skills, always looking for the next excuse to learn a bigger word, to communicate a bigger idea. I started by learning how to make the symbols. My hand writing was sloppy, (It still is) my Grandma would make jokes about how I have doctor hand writing. But she was absolutely essential to my learning. I began kindergarten one year before I should have been eligible, due to my advanced abilities considering how young I was. In that time, a show about puppets called, “The Letter People” became one of my obsessions. Around the same time, our class was introduced to a spelling list. A group of words that we must learn to spell and define? This was exactly the type of knowledg...

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...ystem crashes. To describe a certain problem to another person, and actually be helpful in solving that problem, required me to be able to articulate my speech perfectly. If I wasn’t able to describe what was happening, I couldn’t be any help in finding the solution. Luckily, I did quite well with the company, all while boosting my personal skills with reading and writing.

About a year after taking my third contract with Activison, I decided that it was finally time to return to school. I was so nervous to be starting a new period in my life, which always seems to be changing fast, but so far it feels amazing. Getting back into writing at the college level is just the challenge that I was looking for it seems. I don’t think that I have ever been so exited about doing school work! I look forward to another opportunity to test my abilities, and also to gain new ones.