Lea Michele's 'Glee' character said "Being a part of something special makes you special."

What about starting something special?  Every time I come to halt in my studies, my future career, and my personal conflicts, I come back to the same place. I come back to writing.  It's my thing, my only thing.  I refer to myself as a jack of all trades. It's not untrue; I can be great at anything I learn. But it's my home turf.

My seventh grade English teacher changed my life. I'd known before I'd loved writing, but he introduced me to a world of style, structure, and feeling that I'd been tapping into unconsciously.  He helped me to try to master it.  He was so inspiring.  I led my friends to a two year long venture of creating our own compilations of writing. The second year we almost started a website. I loved doing it.  I loved editing, I loved writing my own stuff, and I loved directing my creatives.

When we gave him the first compilation, I knew what I wanted to do with the rest of my life. Seeing my teacher moved by just the gesture, and how compelled he was by our work and use of words moved me.  I want to move everyone else and I know the best way how.

On Glee when Rachel Berry says her bit about being special in the pilot, and then again and again throughout the course of the show, all I can think of is our meetings in the taco place on Northern Boulevard collaborating.  And it is those memories and that aspiration to be amazing at in on a wide scale professional level that make everything I face in my life worth facing.  Because I know at the end of the day, nobody wants what they want more than I want to do what I was born to.

That gives me hope.