513. The Reluctant Novice
When I entered the Convent because, more or less - and may I
say, it was more rather than less - I was forced to do so; I never thought I
would write about it. I thought that the irritations and absurdities I found
living in the Convent would never ever again be of any use to me – but they
were.
Such moments remained silently in my memory until they forged
through with force to inhabit my consciousness.
However, I had no idea what to do about it until I came across a
technique of writing I call “Fiction of Reality”, where in effect, I noticed,
Imagination Meets the Truth.
I have given an explanation of what “Fiction of Reality”
consists on my website here:
It is through this writing technique that after many years I was
able to re-create with a clearer vision of life in the Cloister, as it was in
the 1960s. But more importantly what the meaning of a “Vocation”, really
entails.
