Dear Helen, thank you for your interesting question for the prompt for June 27 2025. My answer is this:
Since I have found my favorite pastimes in my older adulthood, I assume those might have been the areas where I could have done well in. I like art and writing. If I had been advised to enter creative writing, I might have enjoyed it or made a career out of it.
My sibling did suggest that I enter into a writing career when we were young students in school. I rejected it because I felt I was like a frog in a well. I lacked exposure and experience. There was no internet. I was young and didn’t have money to buy books. Library books were old and I didn’t have the means to travel to the library often.
One of my aunts saw my school paintings and she suggested I maintain my painting skills. When my paints finished, I experienced some withdrawal and didn’t feel like buying a replacement box. My parents said paints were a waste of money and I felt discouraged to continue. I stopped drawing and painting.
I think other people who know me and seen my paintings have better ideas of my possible potential than myself. I had many doubts, insecurities and little guidance. If I manage to make something good out of my writings and art, I would return to my origins.
