Life is too short

Life is too short to spend it stuck in a career that doesn't make you happy.

So as the year progressed at my second school, I saw that teaching was not something I would stay in forever. I had hoped that a change in schools would show me that I just needed to find the right school but instead it showed me that kids are kids and parents are parents everywhere you go and neither has any interest in the learning what really needs to take place for success to happen. I found teaching to be more of a babysitting gig than an academic profession. And that only proved truer in my second school where kids choose their classes based on how much fun they are instead of what will actually help them in the future.

So here I am, starting this blog to share with you my journey to becoming an attorney. I remember as an adolescent joking about how I would be a good lawyer and thinking about how much fun it would be (but I also had a strong drive to teach and at the time 4-5 years sounded a lot better than 8 years of schooling). I don't regret the decisions I've made and I see them as a way to give me different perspectives and allow me to become an even better attorney some day.

My passions have always included reading and writing. I've written poetry ever since I can remember and in school have always chosen essays and other written assignments over other choices. I remember in my Earth Science class every test included 4 options (multiple choice, true/false, short answer, and essay) which we had to choose 2 of. And I think I was the only one who always chose the short answer and essay options. I have always felt confident with words and have always felt that I can talk my way around any answer.

I'm also the kind of person that never accepts anything at face value. I'm always digging further, trying to understand why something is as it is. It's a quality that my husband doesn't enjoy so much in me. He would rather me just accept what he says instead of making him think about the reasons behind his beliefs. But he is a very black and white kind of person.

So, anyway, this is where I am coming from. I'm not sure what all lays ahead of me but to be honest that is part of the exciting part. Life is too short to worry about the uncertainties in life. Instead look forward to all the exciting things to come while still enjoying the wonderful things in the present.