So this assignment for my Writing and Reporting for the Media is so intimidating, I guess that's why I waited until mere hours before it's due to attempt it. I don't do facebook or twitter, so putting myself out in the internet land is all new.
A phrase I like to live by is "Life is a journey, not a destination". All our lives we look so forward to getting to a certain point, whether it's turning 18, 21, graduation, whatever... that we miss out on enjoying the trip itself.
I work and just started college this past summer after too many years away from school. At first I was so afraid to go, I was sure my teachers would be younger than me and I would be looked at by the students as the old lady...but to my amazement it was the best thing I could have done. To my relief, my teachers were older than me, the students were so welcoming and friendly, I truly loved summer school! The amount of homework was staggering, learning to do things I have never done before like writing reports, making an annotated bibliography, citing sources...it was overwhelming, but my sense of accomplishment was so rewarding. I treasured my corrected papers, appreciated the critique and felt so proud of my grades. I would go to work and tell my co-workers how much I loved school, shared what I had learned from my classes, and bragged about my grades. So many people became inspired by my sheer enthusiasm, and I was told that I was literally transforming into a different woman, in a good way!
I was a housewife, my kids had grown and moved out starting their own lifes, and I was basically just wasting my days and life doing nothing. One night changed my life as my husband suddenly with no warning passed away in his sleep and he was only 39. I had to start all over again, learn how to live alone, how to not be so afraid of everything. Seeing how his life ended so suddenly without warning made me live each day like there was no tomorrow and make every day count. After a few years of living like that, the money was gone and I started to believe I would have a tomorrow, so back to work and now school, I think it's time to figure out what I want to be when I "grow up".
This summer I took English Composition and Spiritual Health, both very different but both amazing. I got so much from both, my writing improved immensely and I learned discipline in writing and facing deadlines. My Spiritual Health brought focus to my life, helping me to choose to "be present", live in the now not waste time on the past that can't be changed nor be so worried about the future that I miss out on today.
This semester I am continuing in the Holistic Health studies with Stress Management, as well as Women's Health and this interesting, challenging class to help me write. I am always being asked what I'm majoring in, which I have no answer because I am basically just taking a mixture of whatever sounds interesting to me.
However, the other day as I was looking through a Holistic Health and Wellness pamplet in class, I came across an article stating that Ventura College has the only Holistic Health Program in the state and in looking through the required courses I find that I already have 3 covered on my way to earning an Associate in Arts Degree in General Studies with emphasis on Holistic Studies, so that's what I'm going to do. Finally, a direction to go in.
But it doesn't make this class less important to me in any way, as I've always wanted to write and look forward to learning all I can to pursue that field too.
Because I can do it all!
