Ambitions From A Chronically Ill Person

Rachel C.
3 min readMar 31, 2022
A photo with a yellow background of pill packets and loose pills, as well as a pill bottle and what looks to be a thermometer.
Photo by Volodymyr Hryshchenko on Unsplash

I’ve never not known what I wanted to do with my life. Ever since the age of eight when I’d saved up for my first camcorder, I knew that my dream was to become a movie director. I took editing lessons, begged my parents to send me to New York Film Academy, and received a scholarship to my dream art college.

And even when reality and the chances of succeeding in Hollywood hit me, I still had many…

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