Focus On… Page
Dearest Gentlereader,
This author has not written for quite some time. Perhaps our adventure through the Japanese archipelago got the best of us. Maybe the quill must be put down every so often to experience life just before it passes one by. Afterall, pages can only be filled once one has the resources necessary to fill them. Make no mistake, I cannot promise that another hiatus won’t occur, however this author aims to embrace the page that he currently resides on.
Yours truly,
Gentleman Whistledown
Now that I’ve gotten to have my “Bridgerton” moment. A lot has happened since I last wrote. After Japan, I spent some time in the south of France at a Writer’s retreat. Following that, I visited a dear friend in Denmark. Returning home, I pondered what my life would be like now. I knew that I didn’t want to stay in Miami. Thus my job search began. I knew I wanted to move to LA again. I’d done a semester of school there and liked it enough to have it be my first big move after college. Fortunately for me, I got into the NBCUniversal Page Program.
Before I was a “Page”, I only associated the word
with anything academic or reading related. Watching the cursor blink as you attempt to figure out where to take your writing can feel like the most daunting of tasks. However, there is solace in observing the blankness of a page. It can become whatever you will it to be.
In the last six months, my view of the term has expanded. A page can be an assistant, a tour guide, a student, a teacher, a mentor and a friend. For many Pages, this is our first job after college. We stand at the beginning of our careers with endless possibilities ahead of us.
It’s been a year since I graduated from college, I was nervous about who David would be after. No longer attached to the occupation of “Student”. My travels reminded me that at my core there remains a constant. A constant that makes me… me.
I've taken on the title of Page and embraced it. I know that this too will have its time. When that time comes, I’ll have to remind myself that once a page has been filled, the only thing left to do is turn it.
