Discovering Dreams

Since my sophomore year of college I have spent countless hours, days even, trying to figure out what I want to do with my life. I went from major to major to major until I finally just left school and moved to Georgia. I've been here for about a year and a half now, and I've been doing pretty much the same thing, just without spending all the money of taking classes. I've gone from subject to subject, researched the required classes to get certain degrees, looked up costs for different schools, looked at colleges where I would go to normal classes, online schools, and even block schedule colleges.

I had a sort of break through one day at church, when my pastor said that what we do with our lives, for our careers, should be our passion. So I got really excited and thought, finally, here's my breakthrough. Just figure out what my passion is and go back to school for that. Enter new problem. I have since been trying to figure out what my passion is. This has proved to be far more difficult than I expected. There are so many different things that interest me, it's been really hard to figure out what my passion is. Then, last week, it hit me. Could it be so simple, so easy? Ever since websites like Orbitz and Cheap Cheaptickets came into existence I have spent probably as many as hours researching trips as I have trying to figure out what I want to do with my life. I love traveling. Flying is one of my favorite things. I love exploring airports and hotels. I love walking around new cities, taking pictures of places I've never been before. The one thing that I want to do before getting married and having a family is travel as much as I can. What does this all add up to? Two words: Travel Agent.

It sounds kind of wierd, even to me, but now that I've thought of it, I feel more at peace, and actually excited about it. It would give me more of a set work schedule, which I've been craving. I would get paid to do what I already spend hours doing for free. It may not be a huge business, but according to this government website it's not going to be dying out anytime soon. I can go to school and get an associate's degree for it, then if I wanted to I could get a bachelor's degree for business or something. I could make more money, which is always nice. Between more and a set schedule, I would be able to get in a lot more traveling, and I could take some classes toward other majors that I'm really interested in, like Forensic Science and Sports Management. If I could get myself well-established as a travel agent I would be able to work from home, too, so when the time comes when I do get married and have a family, I could stay home with my kids and still be able to work.

It's so exciting to finally figure out what I might actually want to do with my life, and to know that by figuring out that one thing, everything else that I want to do would be able to happen too. Everything from getting my own place, to traveling, to studying all the different things that interest me, to it be a little easier to save up for the different things that I'm trying to save for. I've been slowly getting my life back on the right track and I feel like this is such a huge push in the right direction and I'm just really happy. It's seems like everything else is kind of starting to get better too.

More excitement falls into the two trips that I already have planned. I'm going to Disney World for a week in August. Everything is already done for the trip, all I have to do is pack and get there... in another month and a half (ish). Then, in June I'm planning on going to England for a week. Sarah and I have been talking about it for a couple weeks. I've already started pricing stuff, we're pretty much waiting on exact dates, and to get back from Disney, then the saving for England begins! I'm also planning on going to New Hampshire for a week next year, and I'm about as excited about that as I am about Disney and England.

It feels good to be really happy again.