So this will be a quick update, as I am getting ready to go to work. Five shifts in a row stand between me and San Francisco. I have been working hard, and saving that $$ for my trip, knowing how worth it, it will be.
I have been thinking about how different people spend their particular money, and how each person makes choices as how to live their life. I have been making a conscious effort to make sure that everything I do, and everything I buy, is for the betterment of myself. Do I really NEED that? or do I WANT it? Two completely different things.
On monday I am scheduled for an appointment with the health travel clinic. I will be getting a few shots, and malaria meds. Should be a blast. I am getting really excited for my trip, but know that the time between now and then is going to fly right by.
I always wondered where my love for people and cultures came from, and I think it just comes from within us. Each of us has a passion and a calling in life, and we must follow it. I was talking to my Grandma yesterday, and she told me in 1948 she left home and her and her friend went to the west coast, where she worked and traveled before marrying my Papa Joe. I think that it is so important to have that time apart, time to follow your individual dreams, and figure out what you as an individual wants. We have so much time to grow as two, and create a life. Though our culture creates very independent people, I can definitely see how we are so giving to one another. For a long time, I mad sacrifices for others happiness, or made choices in my life in order to make someone else's better. I think this is good, except for when we are sacrificing ourselves. We need to go out and make ourselves happy and then it will change the world.
As Howard Thurman said, "Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive."
What makes you come alive?
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