Henry Ford
So here goes nothing. I’ve never written a blog, I’ve never
wanted to and honestly, still don’t. I’ve heard many people say that if they
could do it all over again, they would blog about their experiences, so alas,
here I am. Leaving so abruptly was never the plan, but now that I think of it,
nothing ever seems to go to plan. This can be a good and a bad thing. First,
we’ll explore the latter..
The term “bad” I guess is relative (much like everything
else), but in this case it means that I planned to join the Peace Corps and
carry about the next 2.5 years of my life in a place I dreamed about for a good
portion of my life. Then the plan was
to find an entry level UN job, a secret long term goal of mine, however this
didn’t happen. Instead, I ended up resigning from a very large and successful
organization to pursue teaching. TEACHING?!? You may say.. Yeah I almost
couldn’t believe it myself, but with a Teaching English as a Foreign Language
certificate gathering dust in my closet, I figured it was worth a shot. I mean,
what were the chances that out of how many different applications I would be
chosen to go to a Country half way around the world, right? A Few short weeks
later, and I plopped in Taiwan. I left
something that I was good at, but not passionate about, for the unknown. I left
my amazing friends, family and comfortable lifestyle for something that I was
banking on helping me discover my true calling and passion. So, despite it
being hard to leave people that I cared so much about, it was even more
difficult to look at my situation and hate where I was in life. I took a job
right out of school in hopes of paying off a good portion of my loans, and
traded in my happiness and drive in the process. So back to what I said before
about luck. This is precisely where my luck changed, or at least that’s how I like
to look at it.
I’ve always thought that it’s important to learn from the
point of view of others. Although on a small scale, I struggle with it (like
most people unless you’re God) from pointless tiff’s to full fledge arguments. I
do, however, believe on a much larger scale the importance of embracing change.
Change surrounds us and can either choke us or help us grow. I chose to grow
with change. Some still may be confused with my not so straight career path,
but it all make sense to me. Changes and how we react to changes, define who we
are and who we want to become. I probably will not become an English teacher in
the states, granted I can’t say for certain because I just started, however I
know what my main goal is. I think of this as a unique opportunity to empower
young children through language, while empowering myself through an atypical
experience that will (hopefully) allow me to attain a career in which I want to wake up and go to.
Some people are driven by money, others by love, I’m driven
by passion. I think that money, love and any other byproduct of whatever one
thinks happiness is, comes from passion. Hence, maybe when things don’t go to
plan, it’s because there’s something better out there for you. To quote the
classics, “there may be something there that wasn’t there before.”
So, here it is; the first entry of my very first blog. From
now on, it will mainly do with learning opportunities, new things I have discovered
about the culture/people, as well as new things that I have discovered about
myself.
Cheers!
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