That was an uplifting story of overcoming harship, ZeaLitY. I feel your pain.
I've been where you’ve been. I’m still going through it right now. My friends almost never call or plan to hang out together like we used to. We don't make weekend plans just for the fun of it. They’re all caught up in making decisions that are affecting the course of their lives, be it for better for worse…just like I am.
I have dreams of becoming a professional screenwriter, but when I first started out, I felt like I was going nowhere. I had no concept of the medium, and I spent my time drowning myself in how-to books instead of just going ahead and doing what a writer does: writing. I accomplished nothing for 3 years straight while struggling at my under-funded community college. But as soon as I got a grip on myself and the reality of my literary talent, I took the bull by the horns, took a screenwriting class, and eventually completed my first screenplay in less than a month.
I won’t go into detail about the screenplay itself, but the fact here is that the dream of its completion doesn’t stop there. Seeing it sold to an agency, saddled with funding by producers, attached with a director and some great actors and actresses, filmed and edited in a prestigious studio, and finally releasing it in multiplexes around the world is the dream I yearn for.
I don’t read Naruto anymore (I stopped when I started college), so I must be honest. I can’t possibly relate to the “Springtime of Youth” you so passionately embrace as a mantra for your creative drive. I do, however, embrace a creative drive of my own:
“Your future is whatever you make of it…so make it a good one.”
—Doctor Emmet Brown, Back to the Future
I haven’t played Crimson Echoes yet…
*GenesisOne strokes his chin while looking up at and beyond his ceiling in deep intrigue*
Perhaps I should get started…
