Rome Wasn’t Built in a Day?
There were many varied courses, all would help in my interests in photography, drawing and sculpture... but then a dread settled over me as I looked over the duration time of the courses and all these silly little extras I had to provide to even be considered. I sighed, isn’t anything easy and straight-forward anymore? So again realizing I would probably be 30 years old by the time I finished my initial schooling, and began some real archaeology, I took on a defeatist attitude. ‘It’s just not meant to be’ I surmised. I mean, waiting around for 6-7 years is a bit too much. I want to be in the field and getting paid for it now. To live the life of an archae... and everything that went with it. It wasn’t going to happen any time soon though.
You’d think my interest in archaeology would remind me of the proverb ‘Rome wasn’t built in a day’.
Moving Forward
Whilst deepening and adding flourishes to my over-dramatization and my impending doom of having to live without being an archaeologist in this lifetime, imagining my haphazard life not to mention bitterness as an old woman shaking my fist at my grand children saying ‘I could’ve been sonny jim!!! I could’ve been I tells yer!!!’ my hand kept pointing the mouse at the art courses links; absent mindedly clicking away, knowing they weren’t meant for me. I prayed for some sort of guidance, anything to help me. It was then that I clicked on a course link that had ‘professional writing and editing’ as the title, I read the subjects offered. ‘Writing children’s stories, writing histories, myths and symbols’... hmmm. A door may have closed, but a window may have just opened. I read more and found that this just may be the ticket. No getting paint and glue and clay on my hands or dark room chemicals... or even producing a grand portfolio. I think the lecturers would have noticed I wasn’t really interested anyway. To know how to write properly, now that appealed to me. To learn the art would be absolutely brilliant! It fitted in perfectly with the social sciences and at last I felt things were (although very slowly), moving forward...
