Thank you for sharing this Dejan. I can relate to many of your early experiences. Growing up, I loved to draw and always wanted to be an artist. At school I wrote essays and assignments that I could enhance by my artistic skill. While at school I even did a commercial art course by correspondence, but when I went to high school they stopped having art as a subject, so that dream sort of fizzled.
I finally took up writing again, late in life, and wish I had of pursued it earlier.