As a child, I wanted to be a vet. Then I realized that wasn't true. I just wanted to play with kittens. I also wanted to be an artist, so I worked hard at that only to realize I'll likely always be an amateur. And somehow, I never noticed that I was good at writing.
It was only some years into high school that I found out the reason I did so "badly" in writing fiction back in primary school; a) nobody could read my handwriting and b) the teachers had refused to put my stories into competitions and such because they'd all assume I'd cheated and apparently never thought to actually ask....
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Tell you what, that was the best, and weirdest, compliment I've ever gotten. Unfortunately, the "no child writes like that" time has long since come to pass. Now it's supposed to be hard work and all that....
But I guess I'm fundamentally lazy. I write because I need to, for sanity's sake, to get these people out of my head. I write because I must. If someone else happens to enjoy it along the way, well, that's just a bonus ..