It anyone asks me, what I want me to be when I grow up? Well, the first time was when I was 6 and in pre-school. I told my teacher that I want to a doctor and just like my father; Dr Carlisle Cullen, who was the head of E.R department at Everett General Hospital. The town of Washington State where we live. My father quickly moved up the ranks of the hospital. He is now the board of directors as Chief of Surgery. From the time I was 4 until 13, I wear every year for Halloween doctor scrubs and a lap coat that my dad got me.
When I was at Madison Elementary, it was so easy for 6 years. Learnt alot about the world, I learnt English, Maths, Science. I loved it all. I knew I was going to be a doctor in the E.R just like my dad.
Maybe it's time I take you back to early years. My parents are Carlisle and Esme. I meant I feel bad for them so bad what were their parents; my grandparents thinking when they thinking when they name their children but it didn't mean that Carlisle and Esme had to me are like that with me and my siblings. I'm the youngest of three. My older brother, Emmett Christopher was not a bad name and then my sister, Mary- Alice, what ere are in 1950's but we all name her Ally for short. I think I would have started by telling you my name. So here it goes. My real full name is Edward William Anthony Mason Cullen. I mean that were my parents thinking. For the most of the time, I tell people that I got no middle name. I mean I got three middle names. I guess, mum and dad just couldn't decide which middle name they wanted for me, so I got three names. Edward came after my great grandfather on my father's side. William came from my great grandfather on my mother's side. Anthony; just because they decided, they both had a great love the name. And then, Mason because it was old friend of my dad's that passed away when they were younger.
Emmett is 15 years older than me and got a family of his own. My parents had him when they were just 20years old in they were both in college at the time. He went to University of Washington and studied Physical Education because he wanted to be a high school gym teacher. At uni, he met and fell in love Rosalie Hale, a business major. They got married, two years later. Rose and Em have a son Joshua James; JJ for short. Because JJ came at 28 weeks and nearly died, well mother and son nearly died after a drunk had hit their Toyota Land Cruiser. After the drama of his birth, they decided that one perfect little boy so they were happy to ever have another kid. Plus, Rose and Em were told it would be hard for them to ever have kids again and if they did, the chances of miscarriages are very high.
Mary-Alice or as we call her Alice and Ally, just loves her fashion and even when to university and got a degree in Fashion Designing and got her clothes line called ACW. She met her soul mate, Jasper Whitlock, when she was 24 years old and started junior clothes called Mary-Alice. Which she still works on today but started a line by herself, after marrying Jasper and having their twin's girls; Emma and Becca.
When I was 13 and at Heatherwood Middle School, I was asked again, what did I want to me be when I grow up? Where did I was did I want to live, did I want a wife and children. I was asked what about my career? Well, I asked myself. Yes I did still want to a doctor but I didn't want to work in a hospital like my father anymore. I want time to have with my family. I want it all. House; wife; 2.5 kids; cars; all by the time I was thirty.
But that all change when I was 16 and my classmate passed away after being killed by a car hitting his bike when he was on his way to school one spring morning. You see he was the guy that camera and all types of camera and how that worked and hate the damn things and get my pictures taken. Eric love it so much that he walked around school with a camera and took picture of all the school events and of everything that happened to high schoolers.
A few weeks, after his death, we have a school event on and the principal asked me to take the photos for the school yearbook. I thought why not I need a hobby. But I never thought that I fell in love with it. Or that one day, I had my own company ECullen Photos. I met the love of my life. Get everything I want out of life without me a doctor but I still got a wife; kids and cars but it was by the time I was 30, I was 40. I never imagined this was going to be my life. So please follow me, as I tell you, my story.
This is my story of up and down and up but I always came out on top. I never thought that my parents and our families would have support to business and get a degree in photography.
To this day, I never thought the day that Eric, my classmate, would have died at the age of 16. I would have never had this career that I do now. I am glad I never became a doctor and follow my father's step just like he did to his father.