“What do you want to be, Leo?”
“I want to be a writer.”
“And you, what do you want to be, Gary?”
“I want to be a writer.”
I was teaching English in Kaohsiung in Jan., and my incompleted thesis was left behind in Taichung.
I never thought that my students would take me back to the days of being a "writer".
The target of the lesson was to express their dream in the future.
There’re many colorful pictures of different occupations in the book, such as astronaut, a musician, a singer, a dancer, a teacher, a doctor and a writer.
Kids were asked to play games by asking their fiends “What do you want to be?”
Surprsingly, “being a writer”was a popular dream.
I was curious of the reason, and meanwhile, felt a bit…sad.
It seems that I’m the one whom they dream to be.
They didn’t choose to be an astronaut, a doctor, or a singer.
Instead, they told me “I want to be a writer.”
I asked them why.
They told me, “Writers write books. I thought that’s something!”
“They’re really cool! They just sit and type with the computers, and then, a book is completed.”
My 8 year olds kids adore persons who are able to ‘make’ books.
They’re right. Writers should be ones who can turn fragments into words, into pages.
A writer should be the one whose muse will come back.
I'm not a writer yet. I lost the contact of my muse.
Anyone knows her contact ??
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