"every lawyer secretly wants to be a writer"

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Once, when I was younger (in high school maybe?), my father and I were talking about a book. I looked on the back and saw that the author was a lawyer. I mentioned it. Then I started talking about a story I thought, maybe, I might want to tell.

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My dad said:

Every lawyer secretly wants to be a writer.

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This stuck in my brain. "Wow," I thought to myself, "what must that be like to live life always wondering 'what if'?"

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What if I wrote that book?

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What if I was doing what I wanted to do? What if I created something?

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I feel like I always flirted with writing.

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Even look at the words I used above: "I thought maybe I might want to tell". Hell, there were many stories. I loved stories. I lived them. I escaped in them. My imagination was on fire.

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And how glorious it would be to be able to give someone else that?

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I've come to believe that everyone has a story. Many of us have more than one.

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Sometimes I wonder what life would be like for us if we gave ourselves permission to actually start telling that story.

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