Some Day

life, obsessions, love, stories
"Some day I'm going to write the story of my life" the song says and that is close to my dream. From the age of ten I've been writing stories and poems with the hope of someday being a published author. The stories are fictional though quite often in my earlier years they were based on experiences I'd had, only they always came out better in my stories. The poems were usually done at stressful or highly emotional times in my life as a way to express things I could not verbalize successfully to anyone. In truth, I have always expressed my self more completely on paper. In most cases it's because I get too emotional otherwise and end up crying. Try as I might to overcome that affliction I have yet to succeed. Several years ago my obsession with writing led me to get involved with a group spearheaded by a successful mystery writer. Anonymously we each wrote an abbreviated version of our life for a book called Silver Tales, because all of us were over fifty. We self-published the book the first time. Since then it has been picked up and revised a couple times. The latest version has even shorter versions of our original stories and is called Pearls of Wisdom. So, I have written the story of my life in a way, but it has not satisfied the dream. My dream is to have my romance novels published, but more than that I also dream of seeing my son's fantasy novels published (he is an even better story teller than me). So whenever I hear this song I am reminded that there are still dreams to fulfill and goals left to reach"”someday.