FROM HERE

It's a beautiful day, the sun is shining, and we've all got our whole lives ahead of us. So it's kind of a perfect day to reflect on the good things in life and where I am now, so that I can get a better handle on where I want to be in the future.

Living at home with elderly parents in a small town with little opportunity and no international events is terrible for me. I become complacent and unmotivated very easily when this is the time in my life that I ought to be cavorting about in big cities, jet-setting across the world, and attending networking and cultural events at museums, art shows, and theaters due to my chosen field. (...Which just sounds exhausting! An unrealistic expectation, I think, that I'll attribute to needing a complete change in life.) But in any case, I have no idea where to start! So I need to focus on the here and now to get anywhere later.

HERE AND NOW

I am holding several part-time jobs at the moment while I figure out what it is that I truly wish to devote my time and energy into, career-wise. I provide customer service in retail, substitute teach on occassion in my community, and online-tutor Japanese students of all ages in English. Through these jobs I can enjoy the feeling of helping others directly, feeling productive and useful, and successfully sharing ideas - which are all very important to me. They also provide me with much-desired schedule flexibility.

I am a completely unattached free spirit with nothing but myriad options in front of me. I'm interesting, fun, and friendly, and have a uniquely abstract way of thinking. There is nothing to hold me back from anything, except myself!!!

This is where I am now, and this is where I need to start from. The possibilities are practically endless! It's really daunting and easy to get distracted and overwhelmed, especially since I am an extremely anxious person. But for now, let's call it a day. After all, things have to be taken one step at a time...

...One step at a time. :-)