Life Changing Experiences
What is the one most significant experiences that had a profound influences on the direction of you’re life. Is there one?
For me, it was definitely a three year encounter with a very old fashioned Catholic Priest called Father John.
I was about 17 years old, un able to read, write, spell. I hadn’t even seen my own signature and was pretty much lost in a world of Dyslexia that all input had failed to help.
Along comes this priest, a big burley man with long black robs that belonged in the 18 century and a very shinny bald head. He was something out of Dickens.
He assessed me, laughed a big burley laugh and said, “right then young man, lets begin”. He began by forcing me to learn to read Barnaby Rung, Great Expectations and the rest.
Three years later, I had rudimental reading and writing skills that are now up to a reasonable standard 20 years down the line.
This single event opened up a world that I had been excluded from, and it was then I new that I wanted to be a writer.
Any one else got an interesting story to tell?
