Life and Inferno

The unknowing of life is what I was afraid of. After high school, there are many paths that one can begin. Whether it is to be working right off, joining the service, a continuation of education, or even the intertwining of each one. For me, and my indecisiveness, I did not know what I wanted. I love working to the point where at the end of the day is that of exhaustion. To have a strong desire to sleep because of how tired I am from working hard and to prepare for the same to happen the next day. However, there is only so much you can do with just a high school diploma. Inspiration for education can come from places that may not be what is expected. This for me started when my coworker talked to me about what she goes to school for. This “inspiration” for education also grew more from the dreaded capstone process that we all know of.

Originally starting off, like the beginning of the igniting process, I was sixteen and just nearing the end of Junior year. We were told to be prepared to know what we wanted for our capstone projects. For me, I had no idea of what I wanted to do. I was already a student teacher and not quite sure if I actually wanted to go through with teaching, so I kept it in thought, but more of on the back burner. So then, I made a list of about 50 different careers that I thought were interesting. They were all stacked one upon another like that of kindling waiting to be the one that is chosen to be ignited first.

At work I mentioned what I had to do and my coworker piped up and asked what I was looking for in a job. So I explained, I wanted something that was interesting and not just a constant routine of that same monotonous routine activities over and over each day. I wanted something that would give me vast opportunities. Not only to be vast, but I wanted to be able to help others. It is just something I greatly enjoy doing.

She mentioned what she went to school for and how I could fit immensely due to what I was looking for. This was my “spark” to the fire that would soon begin my enthrallment. Like a caveman seeing fire.Soon it was set up for me to shadow an Occupational Therapist. This was when my “fire” for education of Occupational Therapy became ignited it was only to grow larger the more I learned.

When it comes to school it is a time where one may love it or they may have more of a disinclination view towards it because of a strong disliking of it. For me, it was a mix of both. It was like my brain was the “pail being filled” with information I did not want. When it came to actually learning about something I actually had interest in and wanted to know more about, it caused my simple “Fire” within to grow into something much larger. For me, my educational inspiration came from the process of learning about Occupational Therapy, it was that of an inferno beginning within myself.

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