Five Minute Friday- Write

A friend of mine recently started blogging again. She wrote today with a "five minute Friday" challenge to "write" that she heard about here. It is just that. Write something, anything for five minutes. It got me thinking how much I miss writing. Not necessarily in the blogging world....and actually, very much not in a blogging sense. I painfully confess that I used to be a writer. I used to write stories and poems, scribble lines on napkins and in the back of books. I was president of the literary magazine at my high school. I've been published (in forgettable, small publications). I used to find such pleasure in it. Now I find myself mute and so out of practice, I struggle to type out my basic thoughts. What happened? Well, my silence coincides with my marriage. This is not to say that my marriage killed the pen, but it is when life became a lot more busy, and to be honest, my values began to shift. I found myself not having time to write anything pleasurable and soon I stopped trying. I kept busy working, spending time with my hubby and friends, reading, crafting. But the writing stopped. So much time passed that I grew insecure with writing. Did I still have it in me? Was my talent for the written word gone with my adolescence? As my longing to be reunited with my hobby grew, I was then faced with an additional challenge. A beautiful, wonderful challenge I wouldn't change for the world. My daughter, Lydia, came into my life. Any spare time that I thought I had has been redefined by this girl. So now here I am, with a growing desire to write again. I think I am at a place where I am ready to accept the challenge to write again. Ready to dive into something that I love. So I guess this is a start.