Follow your dreams

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It's sad because I have kind of become obsessed with it.  Well, not obsessed.  Well, maybe.  And it's probably not really sad.  It's kind of a good thing.  It's something about which I am passionate, so that is a good thing, right? 

 

 

Question for all of you...what do you do when you are conflicted over what makes you happiest in what you do?  It's a struggle, I guess.  But I don't think I've been this excited about something in forever.  Unfortunately, I can't really pay off Sallie Mae with that alone.  And I am passionate about law, too.  I'm passionate about both of it.  So how do you balance all of that? 

 

 

In the perfect world, what would I do?  Well, I'd be living in Dublin, Ireland, holed up in a coffee shop or pub, writing full-time.  Aubrey and Tim would be there, of course.  But in a perfect world?  That is what I would do for a living. 

 

 

But see the thing is, it's not a perfect world.  And I made decisions to follow other dreams.  Expensive decisions.  I don't necessarily regret the decisions because I'm good at what I do.  I love being a lawyer, and I love working for a non-profit.  I'm good in court.  I'm not tooting my horn, but I don't suck.  But I have a heart condition.  And three times now I've been forced to wear a heart monitor, have been put on two blood pressure medications and am seen by a cardiologist.  So, I'm good at it, but is it what I should be doing? 

 

 

They say you should work to live and not live to work.  I think there is a happy balance in that.  I think what you are doing should be a complement to who you are.  It should just...fit.  It's work, but it's work that you enjoy doing.  So in a way, it's following your passion, too.  Hold it here, I'm getting entirely too deep. 

 

 

I'm not going to suddenly quit my job and move off to Ireland by any means.  I still love what I do.  I want to do everything I can for this agency and make it as successful as I can.

 

 

So I don't know what I'm saying here.  I'm just rambling, and you, as my readers, are just going to have to come to a conclusion of what I'm getting at here.  Maybe if you guys could do that, then maybe, just maybe, I could figure out what it is that I want exactly.

 

 

But that's neither here nor there.  I am blessed and happy to have a job that drives me and about which I am passionate.  It might be for just right now and not forever, but I'm so very lucky to have it. 

 

 

Where God takes me next, I don't know.