01/07/2021
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For as long as I could remember, I always knew what I wanted to do next or where I would be in the next 30 days. School, college, university, work and each stage flowed so easily into the next. By the time I was 26, I thought my future was set in stone. I made a big career shift and despite the negativity around me I followed what I wanted at the time. Those couple of years had made a big impact on my growth and the people who were in my life then had played a great role in shaping and moulding me.
As happy as I was, there was a gut feeling that something was missing from my life and there was a blank space that needed to be filled. After much deliberation and debate within myself, I took the big step of stepping out. I was a nervous wreck because I had no back up plan, no comfort chair to fall back on, but at the same time, a calming spirit ruled the insides of my being.
Why am I rambling on about what happened two years ago, you may ask? One, is to share my story with a hope that it may touch that one person who needs to know that it is really okay to just pause. We live in a world that is so rushed. Get a degree. Get a job. Build your career. Get married. Have children. It can get really overwhelming. So, PAUSE. Figure out what your purpose in life really is and why you are here and alive in this moment of time. Real happiness comes when you know you are pursuing and fulfilling your purpose here on the earth.
The world tells you to follow your dreams. I say, follow your purpose and your purpose will become your dreams.
Two, is to remember today to be grateful for the grace and strength that God has given to me in the midst of the unknown. To be almost 29 and have no idea what your next step is was one of the scariest and most unnerving experiences I had to go through. But, here we are, two years later, almost 31, still alive and happier than ever: a collision between the old and the new, the committed teacher and the aspiring baker.
