I Opened A Book

I love this quote because Julia sounds like a kindred spirit. I have disappeared inside a myriad of worlds and joined a quest or two myself. But there is another difference now, it’s not just other peoples world’s I disappear into, but my own.

This is the life of a writer, a creator and explorer of worlds. As I spend time in my worlds I get to know them more, I tread the paths of my characters, walk with them on their adventures taking note of what they are thinking, feeling, even smelling because as a writer I need to know these things.

How would I react in their situation? But what if I was someone else? How would they react, would it be anger, retaliation, a smile or great wrenching sobs as their whole life crumbled around them?

This week I had two near misses in one day and my mind went into what if mode? What if I hadn’t been able to stop my car? What if I hadn’t seen the other car swerve into my lane in time? How would my life have changed in those few short moments? There are many people out there whose lives have been changed irreparably in the blink of an eye.

They have had their own what if moments and what now moments. This path I walk as student nurse and writer gives me glimpses into other’s stories. It makes me cherish the life I have and how very different it could be if fate chose to roll that dice.

So as a student nurse and a writer I listen, I learn and I watch, in order to better understand those people in my life, the people I come into contact with and their individual stories and even my own story. You never know when your life might change, you never know when you might be the only one to help someone else in need, you may even be the only one who actually realises there is something wrong  in the first place because you took the time to notice.

I hope it will make me a better writer and in time a better nurse. We all have our own stories to tell, our own personal books, by reading others it may give us glimpses into our own story but there is no better way to discover our own story than by living it and by reading it…maybe it is time to open a book.