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Climbing the Dragon's Back: Hua Shan - Debra Cappock-Clegg

Since I was a young kid, I have always been somewhat of a rebel. From day one of grade school I was always defiant on what others told me I had to learn, had to think, or had to do in order to become successful. Over the years of school I started to feel out of place because I was having a hard time coping with the fact that all my friends were acing through classes that I could only average in.

Finally I was in high school, and our English teachers assigned us to write short stories. Initially I dreaded at the concept of having to do such a thing; but when I sat down and formulated the plot for my first story I started to realize something, that I finally found something I like to do. Writing that first story was a load of fun, and because of that experience I now take a lot of pride in my writing over almost any other subject. Since then, writing has become a somewhat of a sport to me.

Some of my other interests are philosophy, geopolitics and spiritualism. I don't hold myself to be a member of any specific denomination, but I find that all perspectives hold validity to the message that they're trying to portray. I respect all similarities and differences that people may hold, just so long as they don't influence the harm of others or their own beliefs.