Decisions, Decisions

I'm fairly confident this will be my last post of substance for a while. This is for no reason other than that I want to save the really deep stuff for a project I'm working on. It has come to my attention that my blog reads as a sort of self-help book so for that reason, I'm going to write just that. I say all the time that it has been my dream to write a book and I think I've finally found the capacity in which to write.

At the same time, I've made other decisions that will coincide with the writing of my book. If you read my blog regularly there is a pretty loud theme throughout the whole thing: emotion. I feel strongly and react to those feelings even stronger. Mine, yours, my best friends', your sister's enemy's, whatever. But now I've decided to listen to what people have been telling me for close to 8 years now and follow my passion.

I've been stuck in this place of cloudiness and uncertainty for what feels like an eternity. But now I'm not really in that darkness anymore. I've shined a light on my future and placed the ultimate light at the end of the tunnel and that is where I'm walking. It's not the most well-lit path I've ever walked, but it's the first one that just feels right. When I graduate FGCU next spring with my Bachelor's Degree, I have officially decided to continue on to graduate school. This has been a topic of much internal debate, whether or not I needed graduate school, or maybe it was law school...I just didn't know. Now I know, and that's the most incredible feeling I can't really explain. It's just a sense of purpose, I guess. I want so much more out of my classes now that I know what I want to do. So to stop deviating from my real purpose, I'm going to obtain my Master's Degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling. With this degree alongside my Business degree I'm currently working on, I'll be able to open my own practice and use the skills I've been told so often I have to finally help other people. That is what I want most. I write here to help others relate. While that may be slowing down, I will continue writing in another capacity and release those words for mass consumption.

I'm excited. Like "8 years old going to Disney in the morning so I can't sleep" excited. I haven't had that feeling in a very long time. I hope you guys are ready to go on an adventure with me.

xx
Gina