by Roger Crain

Created on: August 18, 2008

As a writer, I am constantly amazed at this vast universe of experience: When we looked back on our lives, we are led reflectably on how we would do things differently than what the current consensus predicts that we do. Thus I am only inspired when it comes to harnessing all of that experiential data and deducing from that the stories and novels that I am destined to birth into the world.

Experience is, and remains to be, a great teacher. It behooves each one of us to reflect on our lives with the delicacy of a surgeon's technique in interpreting those aspects that requires utmost care. That's why one should determine what type of writer one wants to be before he plunges headlong into this ocean of make-believe or reality.

Thus we need to go back in time to that era in which we began to emerge from our dungeon of darkness into this abyss of light. This article will delineate the three stages of life that every human being has invariably pass through.

CHILDHOOD

Childhood can be a time of awareness of your life's journey or it can be a painful reminder of all the acidic memories you endured. With me, it was a combination of both those factors which plunge me on a life-long course toward realizing my ultimate objective.

Thus this awareness made me spend many lonely hours after school ploughing through those rows of volumes on the shelves of the school's library and then dropping by the public library to peruse the volumes there. I would stay at the public library until the librarian told me it was time to close. Then I would get my personal belongings and start off for home. If those visits to the aforementioned libraries were during the week, then I would take a short-cut that would expedite my travel time. But if they felt on the weekends, my travel time would be prolonged by taking a more scenic route.

Once home, I would take mental note of the happenings in my household; things would be relatively peaceful during the weekdays, but the weekends would be filled with fear and foreboding. Yet those childhood experiences continued to be the primary source of my ideas, springing up in a wellspring of inspiration.

The Teenage Years

My teenage years were characterized by a spirit of rebellion; yet those years have also been the source of my inspiration for my stories and articles. For example, the article on "Memories" in my helium portfolio was written after I attended a baptismal ceremony at a small rural church. But one of my personal favorites remain the article I

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