# @lifesadiscoball on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CgF2KBltjKj
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/8939814-lifesadiscoball-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2022-07-16T23:19:31.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Heather Petri (@heatherpetri) — https://gondola.cc/heatherpetri

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Day 18 – Writing

As a writer, I pay particular attention to language, choosing words with care and intention, or at least I try to. 

Using them is my art. Painting pictures and creating images that resonate, connect, and help others feel seen. Storytelling is innate in who I am. It helps me cope, process, move through, reflect. It’s what I do for work. It’s what I do to survive. It’s what I do, to love.

I have written with regularity since middle school. And back then, they were typically poems about boys who didn’t notice me. Thankfully - I’ve moved on from that. 😆

Now, I keep writing that which I experience. That which I struggle. That which I love. I write about the hardest and heaviest of feelings. And the lightest and loveliest of experiences.

Right now, that means I write a lot about cancer. And all it has me pondering. Some have unfollowed me since I started writing about it. What I write isn’t for everyone. And that is not what matters.

I do not write to be liked. I write for me. I write, to live. I write, to love. I write to experience. I write to create a path to my healing. 

And then as I walk that path, I hope my words also find those who need them most. Just like other writers’ words have found me when I was lost.

I will continue to write. It is WHO I am.
A writer.
Even though I’m not a traditionally published one. 

Yet. 

I haven’t lost sight of my goal: Heather Petri - New York Times Best Seller. 

It has a nice ring to it, am I write? 😉

#50toFifty #Writing #Day18 #gracefulwarrior #lifesadiscoball

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