Purpose

The purpose of this blog is to share my journey through a life change.  I have been teaching for three years and each year I convince myself more and more that this is not the career choice for me.  I don’t know if I’m in the right field, but just the wrong position, or what the case may be.  This blog serves as a way to hold me accountable to this new endeavor.  I hope to share stories and benchmarks that move me closer to my dream.  Too many times I hear people postponing their life, and I have found myself doing the very same thing.  It is time to start pursuing my goals rather than waiting for an opportunity to appear.  The opportunity is now.  I hope that if you are feeling a similar sentiment that you can find comfort in knowing that this doesn’t just happen to extraordinary people, but a simple, ordinary person such as myself.  Changes can be made to increase the quality of life.  The 20′s can be a challenging time period because there are so many decisions to make that are life-changing.  This can be great, or detrimental.
At this moment the dream is a bit foggy, but the fog is lifting and clear skies are promising a happier life.  I am currently working towards a travel influenced field.  I will be combining my passion for photography and writing to create the ultimate goal of being a travel writer, but not in a conventional way.  I want to use creative nonfiction to inspire people to travel to places just as I have been inspired by others.  When I read through this, it sounds like I have the worse life imaginable, but that is far from the truth.  I have great family and friends that support my efforts.  I am not fixing a broken life, but rather, a flawed one.  Why not make this only life everything I want?
The name of this blog refers to Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave.”  In the story, the people look at shadows all their life and assume that the names given to the shadows reflect what they actually are.  Although leaving the cave is challenging, it is real.  The light is bright, and reaching truth can be difficult.  Rather than living what I have been calling life, I am ready to live a fulfilled life.  I am no longer looking at shadows, but the actual concept.