Why Do You Write?
It’s funny how time lengthens when you don’t like what you’re doing.
It’s funny how time goes by so quickly when you’re living your dream.
Monday, I worked a year at a restaurant.
Tuesday, I got a job for a few years at a law firm. Twenty dollars an hour to make copies and coffee.
On Wednesday, I did accounting. A dozen years stacking numbers and dollar signs into neat piles.
Thursday was twenty years making widgets at the factory. It was the longest day of my life.
What am I doing here? When will this week end?
On Friday, someone gave me a typewriter. I typed my dreams in black and pasted them to the walls until they were spackled with ink.
Friday turned to May. I typed. May turned and my hair grew grey.
I was born, I found, to type.
When the end came, I gave the typewriter away.
So someone else could live, as I did, their life in a day.
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