Naivette and patriotism syempsre writing kasi un ang bago kogn frustration
Naivette is such sweet vomit. To tell the truth I’d take old sour vomit anytime. Bleh what a waste of entirely good internet time, I’ve been writing professionally for 10 years, (who cares!) and I’m 16 years old (naïve girl!) I absolutely love writing (Ulp! )
I wish I was still that naïve; sixteen is after all that point in my life when I though everything I did was right and the whole world was wrong. Not to rain on the girl’s party, but unlike most of us who weren’t born with a silver quill in our hands, our dads didn’t publish magazines before we were born giving us the opportunity to publish an article at age six!
But I do envy her though, not many get that opportunity, which brings us to the topic of struggling writers. While most people, me included, would like to throw the damn pen and pick up the sword and start killing people, we can’t, why? Well aside from the fact that we’ll get into jail, there’s not much choice is there?
At least I’m still studying Chemical Engineering, and will (hopefully) finish in the next two years and (hopefully) make a career out of it. I have an alternative, but what about the other struggling writers who’ve run out of opportunities and now end up as either tele-marketers, networking failures, call center zombies, (most engineering students end up like that too) low paid writers or worse, PTs. (Professional Tambays)
Sometimes I wish that I didn’t learn that the world was unfair, that I just stayed in my protected childhood bliss, that I’ll always be as naïve as that sixteen year old girl, who one day would realize that she’s got it so good at sixteen she should have decided not to grow up, but then again who doesn’t?
Not that I don’t support our young artists, go go go, uplift the Filipino spirit and all that, but I think I’m past all of that patriotism stuff, that was before I learned that earning money was hard work, (hehehe) and scraping a living wasn’t as easy as I thought it would.
