The Beginning

I won't start by telling you who I am or where I'm from, most of you know that already. I'm not going to write out a long list of details about what I'm doing or where I'm going because those things are almost certain to come up multiple times through this new journey. What I do want to tell you is why I feel like this moment has been waiting for me my whole life. As I sit here anxiously counting down the time I have left until I get on the plane at 6 am tomorrow (9 hours, 48 minutes) I have never felt more secure in a decision than I am in this one.

The last 4 and a half years of my life I have spent learning more about the kind of person I am, the kid of person I want to be, and most importantly what I want to do with the time I've been given. It hasn't been the easiest time in my life but it has been eye opening. I have found that even at my highest points I have lost some of the faith I had. Mostly I find that I struggle more often to see the good in people. As an optimist I always believe that its there so part of this journey is to hopefully help me find that faith in people again.

More recently I have been thinking about family, something that I hold in high regard. In my large family of well over 30 people I have been blessed with some of the most amazing people to teach me the important things in life and I owe most of who I am to them. When I considered what my next step would be after getting a degree I thought of the little ones in my family. The kids that look up to me and believe in me, the ones that I am having a role in shaping were some of the first people I thought of. What message do I want them to get from what I am doing with my life. I got that answer just recently when my sister told us she was pregnant. I decided then that I want my niece or nephew to see that they can make a difference and know that I part of me is hoping to change the world for them, to make them proud to have an aunt like me.

Those are some of my more selfish reasons. In reality I just want to give back to people who haven't been as blessed I have in this life. That is the ultimate goal. It was always the goal. Get to a point that I can give a part of my self back to the world. Whether that piece of me changes 1 or 100 live I would know that it was all worth it and that I did what I wanted to do. So here is to the start of something new, something I always knew was a part of me, something I thought I might have lost along the way, and the part of my self I will look back on one day and be the most proud of.

The next chapter starts now...