When I was five years old, I wanted to be a soldier when I grew up.

The fact that I was a female and petite and that the army was not recruiting the fairer gender in those days didn’t bother me.

A little while later, I declared that I wanted to become a doctor. But the trouble was, I was not ready to give up my previous choice. I wanted to become a doctor and a soldier.

Fast forward a few years, and I read about Marie Curie’s story. So impressed was I with her discoveries that I decided I wanted to become a scientist along with becoming a doctor and a soldier.

My wishlist kept growing with age.

In my twenties, it looked something like this:

Soldier + doctor + scientist + IT professional + manager+ entrepreneur.

In the next couple of decades, I was able to cross off some items, but others got added.

In my forties, my wishlist looked like follows:

IT professional + manager+ entrepreneur + network marketeer + painter + writer + cartoonist.

My wishlist was not limited to just that. For example, as a writer, I wanted to be a novelist, a short-story writer, a memoirist, and a non-fiction writer who wrote a book a month. And when I embarked on all these forms of writing, I discovered a new field - online writing.

Something new! Yippee!

I jumped in with both feet first.

That is a typical mulitipontentialite.

The question is, where the hell am I going?

A Whimsical Writer

Multipotentialite And Category Creation

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