I’m in Love

I’m afraid that, at thetender age of 18, I’ve fallen in love and wish to get married. Oh, positive, myparents object, saying it’s irresponsible, and my buddies assume I’m insane, butI pay no consideration. I’ve discovered my sustenance, my lifelong companion and my bestfriend.

Alas, there will be no ceremony, no exchanging of rings, for I havefallen in love with phrases. Ah, phrases. At the same time as I put them to paper, I’m in lovewith them – their energy, allure and delicacy. I’m a type of who spends all dayin the library, one who loses herself in a novel till 4 in the morning. I putevery expertise, vital or mundane, to paper just because it’s an excessive amount of tokeep all my ideas inside.

My favourite phrases are in Jack Kerouac’s Onthe Street. I learn this guide throughout my yr as an trade pupil in Ger-many. IfI had been flirting with phrases earlier than, I fell head over heels once I learn thisbook.

I had been attempting to place all my ideas down in my journal in order that I wouldnever neglect all of the sensations and conflicting emotions I used to be having throughout myyear overseas, however was discovering it troublesome to explain what I felt and was onlywriting what I had finished. As I used to be attempting to assimilate into a brand new tradition, I wasforgetting the power of phrases and seeing them solely as a device, a approach to getfrom level A to level B.

On The Street helped me to recollect and to study.Paradoxically, this seminal novel about life on the street made me notice that I cantravel the whole world, but when my creativeness shouldn’t be fertile and all the time rising,I’m caught in the identical place. On the Street helped me notice that going to collegewill Help me stretch my creativeness and my boundaries so far as doable, andthen past.

So, I wish to get married, however maybe I’m extra polyamorousthan marriage would lead you to imagine. I wish to marry all method of phrases, inall languages, in as many doable kinds. I wish to marry poetry, limericks,essays and novels; I wish to marry German, English, Spanish and Russian phrases.Once I learn On the Street, I turned engaged. School will Help make the marriageofficial.