On Beginnings and Endings
TO BEGIN IS to admit an infatuation, a longing, a love.
A beginning signals that one has moved well past being merely interested and is now immersed in what is most likely an obsession. To begin connotes more than falling in love: to begin is to commit, to stay, to hold.
To write is to encounter a love affair. And as we groom ourselves and struggle to appear our most attractive to our beloveds, so too do we, as writers, want to present ourselves to our readers at our very best.
Or perhaps we get caught unawares: our ragged, disheveled, unsure, untidy, and ugly selves
