Thursday, November 10, 2016

What do I want to be when I grow up?

       So I just celebrated my 45th birthday. Am I in midlife crisis because until now, I still feel this inner restlessness?

       Serendipity brought me to this blogger account that I have somehow neglected again. And it's not because I was too lazy. We moved to a different state! My husband just got promoted again and his new role required relocation for the whole family. Caught in between boxes and movers, realtors and mortgage loans, buyers and sellers, we've finally settled down. Kids are now back to school and I am happily tinkering at home. I made a lot of Filipina friends, which is a delight. It's just funnier to talk in my own native tongue -- bisaya and tagalog. Everything is falling neatly into place.

      I feel happy and contented being a fulltime homemaker. I have made a nice routine for myself. Most days you'll find me cooking Pinoy dishes like dinuguan, kare-kare, and monggo guisado, baking pan de sal and ensaymada, catching up with household chores (when will the laundry ever cease to pile up? The answer is never), driving the kids to school and their other activities, attending mass, and gardening.

       But I know the itch to write is an itch I need to scratch, sooner or later. I have finished the first book of my trilogy novel at the last quarter of 2015. And I know I need to start typing the first few words on that empty page of Chapter 1 for book 2. I will get there soon.

       For sure, I know what I want to be when I grow up (;b). I want to earn from my writing. I have started the copywriting course, have helped a community-based organization in Uganda with grantwriting, and just today, got enrolled in the journalism online course at UC Berkeley.

       You know you're in the right track when the restlessness settles with a certain task at hand. For me, it has always been writing but I am still in that phase of finding the niche that I enjoy most. I have tried medical writing as a freelancer with Demand Media Studios, inspirational writing with Examiner.com, research writing from my previous job as a research nurse (oh yes, that's the job I took when I left dialysis nursing. It was a pretty neat office-hour-weekday-only job. I got to experience how pharmaceuticals develop drugs prior to being marketed to the public. I will write more on that if anyone is interested.), and even resume and informed consent writing. So you see, I really love writing. And I feel this is where God wants to use me. How? That is something that I still need to discover.  

       

     

     

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