I wish I could draw, but I can’t. Can’t sing either, or craft. The estetic (and sports talent) just skipped me. I’ve got a bunch of siblings, they’re all good at Soccer, Tennis, Volleyball. And they sings, play instruments and draw and paint stuff. My parents are the same.
My kids? Yep, the soon to be 18 y/o is an amazing nature photographer. The 10 y/o draws, sings and plays music.
The 8 y/o is extremely creative and craft or bake or cooking the most amazing stuff.
And I wish I had only a spark of that, but nope.
However I do got a way with words, I’ve been taking some writing classes, aspiring to be a writer, did some small freelance work. But I usually thought f**k it and got drunk instead. Because it’s so hard to actually achieve anything in a business like that.
I’m making up fairytales for the boys, writing half done novels and making birthday rhymes instead.
Hopefully sharing a small part of it here will give me some more ideas or inspiration to proceed.
So today I’ll share a poem I wrote in one of the writing classes, if that’s allowed in this thread?
Please do share. Alcohol makes you doubt yourself as it wants to keep you down. Just keep trying to do things you enjoy, even if you are not good at it right away. With practice you can achieve things that you can be proud of quicker than you ever imagined. Sobriety will bring your cognitive functions back on line and you will improve each time you try. Allowing your body and mind to heal through sobriety will make you a better, smarter person and your potential will increase each day you give yourself this gift. Now go out and draw, paint, sing and write. Allow yourself to find that long term sobriety and feel the wonders it can bring to your creative soul.
Thank you, this is so beautifully written it gave me tears in my eyes 
His big brown eyes are the kind of eyes you can drown in.
Filled with all the sorrows and shattered hopes of life, when he looks at you and he sees your soul.
He knows your deepest secrets and he understands without you ever saying a word.
But there’s something else in it to,
An urge to discover, a dare to try, a real curiosity.
Along with that he has a smile that can melt Icebergs or maybe even the entire Antarctica.
Never have I meet anyone who can add all the happiness and joy into a single sparkling smile, when he smiles at me and running his hand through that dark brown wavy surfershair he makes the world stop.
It might only be for a split second but it feels like an eternity.
thats actually pretty good
I don’t find it funny, I find it great that you have found a pastime, which you seem to be pretty good at too
Yeah, very relaxing, it’s a form of meditation
Thank you, it was written as a school assignment. I mostly do fairytales and rhymes and novels.
Nightly affirmation.
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Thank you. 
@MrsOdh thank you!!! It is a beautiful poem!!! The point of this thread is that I truly believe that those who have had addiction have an artistic soul, a sensitive and beautiful core. And you have demonstrated it. Thank you for sharing beauty
Cool Cat! That’s a beautiful painting .