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wrote to the given title, "Reflections: Thoughts on being gay."

As a teenager, I was often ostracized by the community in which I was raised; there was no positive outlet for young people to exhibit their uniqueness, especially if you had a different lifestyle from those you interacted with on a daily basis. So the nonconformity of my attitude under such circumstances caused me to rebel. Still, the teenage years are, and remains to be, a valuable time; and for the writer who will harness that vast reservoir of experience will utimately have a never-ending supply of inspiration.

ADULTHOOD

My awareness that I had fully entered into adulthood came on that blissful day when I left home to attend college. I was finally on my own; no more catering to the rules of the family household, my primary objective was to pursue unrelentingly my life's journey that I had become cognizant of in childhood. Thus I planned a curriculum that would permit me to develop my talents by selecting courses to that effect.

Consequently, as I reflect on earlier forays into that stage of life, I am amazed at the unwitticisms that I often endured. Yet those forays into my earlier adulthood are the responses of a young man toward his environment. A man in his twenties in possession of certain academic credentials still lacks the experience needed to become ennobled by the communiy in which he has lived; or, the community in which he finds himself living out his life's journey. Anyway, those earlier forays keep spurring me on toward attaining that majectic height of my profession.

Then when you have entered those middle years(35-55), you can look back with a note of reprieve while wondering "How I got over?" How you got over will be your litmus test in determining just where you stand among your peers.

Then when you have entered those matured adult years(56 and beyond), you can look back on those earlier forays in unadulterated relish.

Today I am 53 years old; and I have amassed a wealth of experience for which I can harnessed and shaped the ideas that will ultimately eventuate into my stories and novels. If I continue with this unrequited quest without abandon, then that wellspring of inspiration will rise to meet my muse where I most need it.

CONCLUSION

So where does one's inspiration comes from? When you begin to tap into that vast reservoir of your experience, the inspiration that you will need for the journey will be waiting for you when you least expect it.

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