I am sitting here with a few life changes in the near future. As minor as it may seem to the average individual to be changing (yet again) jobs and feeling (yet again) like this is somewhere I will really enjoy, to me I have finally landed a position in the area I've always wanted since I graduated (a year ago). Perhaps I shouldn't be posting this since I have yet to give notice to my current job, but seeing as I have maybe 2 views per blog I feel I'm pretty safe with this one.
So enough beating around the bush. I have been thinking a lot of deep thoughts with the onset of a position as a pediatric nurse among other things. I have contemplated moving across the world for a year just to get a taste of something new, or perhaps being completely independent in a remote town in my own country. Wait, I was already doing that you say? Well.. I was in a remote town in my own Country, that much is true, but it was still so close to my current home that it was like being stuck in limbo. I'm talking a tiny town north Nunavut or the Yukon. All hypothetical and thoughts at this point in the game though... and that's only my job we're talking about.. not to mention the rest of my future that has popped up in my mind.
Sure I've thought about marriage and kids and a house and settling in one place and getting a pet with a garden and a white picket fence... but then I think - not yet! I need more time to.. to what? To travel. To explore the world. To get to know me. The more I think I want to settle and have babies, the more I tend to want to be free to take off at a moments notice, not worry about what other people think, and experience my youth to the best of my ability. Sure, I know you can have kids and a marriage and still be that free loving hippie.. Look at Sonny and Cher! I just feel like RIGHT NOW maybe that's not the plan for me.
so... I am writing this blog now because I want to prove to myself (and anybody who wants to listen) that, for now, I can aim for simple happiness. I've been reading a book on financing and within that book there is a lot of mention that time and time again there is proof that people who give in more to experiences and less to "stuff" are happier. I used to be motivated to work out every day and then one day I stopped. Well, that will begin tomorrow. But this isn't about just setting a goal to be fit and hot and strong. It's about setting a goal to get to know myself and to be a better, happier person.
So.. if you know me, and you want to follow along my journey I will try my very best to post here at least once
So enough beating around the bush. I have been thinking a lot of deep thoughts with the onset of a position as a pediatric nurse among other things. I have contemplated moving across the world for a year just to get a taste of something new, or perhaps being completely independent in a remote town in my own country. Wait, I was already doing that you say? Well.. I was in a remote town in my own Country, that much is true, but it was still so close to my current home that it was like being stuck in limbo. I'm talking a tiny town north Nunavut or the Yukon. All hypothetical and thoughts at this point in the game though... and that's only my job we're talking about.. not to mention the rest of my future that has popped up in my mind.
Sure I've thought about marriage and kids and a house and settling in one place and getting a pet with a garden and a white picket fence... but then I think - not yet! I need more time to.. to what? To travel. To explore the world. To get to know me. The more I think I want to settle and have babies, the more I tend to want to be free to take off at a moments notice, not worry about what other people think, and experience my youth to the best of my ability. Sure, I know you can have kids and a marriage and still be that free loving hippie.. Look at Sonny and Cher! I just feel like RIGHT NOW maybe that's not the plan for me.
so... I am writing this blog now because I want to prove to myself (and anybody who wants to listen) that, for now, I can aim for simple happiness. I've been reading a book on financing and within that book there is a lot of mention that time and time again there is proof that people who give in more to experiences and less to "stuff" are happier. I used to be motivated to work out every day and then one day I stopped. Well, that will begin tomorrow. But this isn't about just setting a goal to be fit and hot and strong. It's about setting a goal to get to know myself and to be a better, happier person.
So.. if you know me, and you want to follow along my journey I will try my very best to post here at least once
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