Any day now, I will be an auntie for the second time and I cannot wait for the little snuggle bug to come out and cuddle with me. I get to be the godmother. I don't think I can express how much I am looking forward to this. I have no idea what the future holds, but I have lots of thoughts and questions that still need to be answered so I guess I'm looking forward to what lies ahead.
I guess one thing this semester has done is to reaffirm what I want to do in the future. Although I'm too afraid to actually take the leap and do something about the problem, I know my passion. It's really strange to find a passion. I feel like some people easily find their passions- whether it's art or music (those seem to come easily for some reason) or some kids love nature and science, others want to know everything that happened in the past, and some are passionate about the future and what could be out there in that blazing, hazing mixture of stars and planets and the universe. My passion came to me on March 4, 2011 around 4:30 pm near exit 21 on I-75 just north of Cincinnati, Ohio. There's a patch of trees just past the exit that must have magic fairies that scream your passion at you. That voice inside my head that keeps me up at night just had a simple phrase to tell me that fateful day. It said "You should do something to get clean water for the people in the world who don't have access to it." That was it. I had been thinking and praying and asking lots of people what I should do. Some said "Be a doctor!" Others said "Be a teacher!" "Be a pharmacist!" "Be a physician's assistant!" "Be an artist!" But those don't appeal to me. They're awesome careers and professions for some people, but just are not for me. As I thought about it more, clean water is something that I completely take for granted. We all do in the United States. It's something we expect, not something we hope for. Not something we walk miles per day just to carry heavy jugs of to wash and eat and keep our families semi-healthy. I then did my research and found that ONE BILLION PEOPLE in the world don't have access to clean water. Can you fathom that? ONE BILLION is a huge number. We're always amazed when a person has a net worth of ONE BILLION dollars. It's 1,000,000,000. Then I learned that TWO BILLION people live on less than $2 per day. It's hard to find anything in the US that you can spend only $2 on- candy, lottery ticket, stuff from dollar stores and the dollar section at Target just to name a few. Learning all of this absolutely blew my shoes off my feet.
That ^ is that inspiration for this blog's name. I need to go do homework (it's Sunday afternoon already) but hope this blog is semi-interesting. I think I need to write down my thoughts and sort them out. This might get semi-journaly but that's ok. It's my blog! And of course I will post pictures of my new niece when she is born... and talk about her all the time and her big sister Rosie who was born on my big day of inspiration and passion. Here's a picture from this summer of Rosie. She's going to be such a good big sister!
-Michelle
