Goal: "To Live"

Recently one of my professors asked the class: “What is your goal? What do you want to do?”  My immediate thought was, “to live”. Her questions were towards our careers, not towards our lives. And that got me thinking. I have felt so career driven for the past 5 years. Though there have been happy times, there are times when I look around and feel like I haven’t really LIVED. I just go through life doing what is expected of me and keeping up with my responsibilities. Its as though I won’t ever get a break from that; like I am in a box and I want to push out the corners to make a circle. Maybe that time is coming…

I have one year left of graduate school. I am hoping once I graduate things will be different. I hope to have a job but then again it’s bittersweet. Not working, my responsibilities have been cut and I enjoy making my own schedule and somewhat doing my own thing. Maybe I’ll have that chance to see different parts of the world, maybe I will have that chance to go on vacation and feel complete relaxation and freedom…even if it’s for 5 minutes.

The important thing to remember is to enjoy the small moments of fun. The moments when we smile, when we laugh, when we feel completely inspired; the moments when we do what makes us truly happy, its important to LIVE.