Un-numb

In the last four or so years, there is nothing other than writing that I have ever really ever felt the need to do. It was in writing that I found life and hope that I never found in my own life. Bring others things to life such as characters was the one thing that truly kept me alive. Giving them perfect lives and living out happiness and loss gave me the courage to live out my own life. It was like I was investing time in myseld through them, and through these characters and voices I found myself with a foot high of papers. I wanted to be heard. I wanted to feel like I wasn't alone in the world, even when I was. My characters and poems gave that to me because in writing the story of their lives, I uncovered part of my own. I owe my charcters my life. Both Kara, Rose, Ami, and all the others. They taught me it was okay to feel, even when the rest of the world was telling me not to.