Creative Story Telling

Lately, I've been contemplating about writing and creation...
Let's just get it out there...
First and foremost, who am I? Deep down within, what am I?
Before all the other labels and organizations and titles and hopes and dreams and failures and experiences... I am a creator.

That may be at the essence of every human being, having been created after the semblance of The Creator... all of us having been given the innate desire and skill to also create.

In this life, in the time since my first walking, no... breath. Since my first breath, what all have I created and left here on the earth?

Many of my dreams, my wildest and most deepest desires, include traveling the world to meet people of all nations and languages, to share a bit of what I created with them. I had a brief taste of this when I served a religious mission in South America. I remember the joy I felt and the satisfaction I gained in sharing pictures of my family and telling stories to people from the southern hemisphere, in a language that I never knew or even really heard of as a child and young man.

I shared stories of growing up as a Filipino having been born in Japan and moved around my entire life through Europe to different coastal cities in America. I shared with the Brazilian people my love for my family and the essence of that which makes me who I am. I shared with them all of my deepest hopes and desires and dreams and invited them to also realize their hopes and dreams. To follow their hearts and to live their lives and existences to the fullest that they possibly can.

Sharing dreams and spreading vision.

That's one thing that brought me so much hope and joy. I remember the happiness I felt in living that every day... My question and goal now is to find how I can continue that... How can I live my potential and multiply all of my greatest creative talents?

In my current employ as a police call taker, I build the skills of communication, typing, phone and computer skills, multi tasking, planning, preparation, geography, map skills, orientation. I do use a little bit of story telling. Through the limited information I gather from my calls, I have to paint a picture of what the officers will expect to respond to, so that they can be dispatched knowing what tools and what back up to expect so that they can best respond to citizen emergencies. I think it is in that limited writing that I do as a full time job, where I am constantly reminded, you know, you Joe Mora, are a writer. In the space of 12 hours every night, I create worlds. I create portals into worlds.

Wow, that kind of blew my mind... I'll open a new post to explore more this idea.