I want to be a writer. Really.

I'm pretty sure that if I could be anything (within reason) I would choose to be a writer. Writers are smart, and creative, and relational. They are experts. On something. A given topic, or writing style, or at understanding the world around them. They are atypical and attentive, noticing microscopic details that are ignored by everyone else. They see meaning where others see nothing, and experience love and sorrow time and time again, at a depth that most won't ever. They are free. Free to think what they want, where they want, when they want. Free to feel. Free to act and react. Free to be.