Work

I oftentimes wonder if I am ever going to be able to find what it is I really want to do in life. I can be content with my job, but it is never fully satisfying. I would like to find that job that makes me WANT to wake up every morning and rush out of the house, not the one that makes me want to sleep in. I envy anyone who has that in their life because they are truly lucky. And then I wonder if maybe I just don't want to work at all, but then I think I would become bored quickly.

So what is it I want to do with the rest of my life? My personal life is great! It's just my work that floods into my personal life that causes all the stress, and I thought it was supposed to be the other way around! I would love to be one of those people who get paid to travel around and report on the different hotspots. I hate finding myself day-dreaming about traveling to this exotic location somewhere and then it abruptly gets interrupted with a phone call, or a student coming in to talk to me.

It's like that movie, "The Pursuit of Happiness." It is so true! Is it that we can only pursue happiness, but in reality it isn't really obtainable? It is sad to think that we have the right to "pursue" happiness, but the thing is, we aren't capapble or willing to do the things in order to reach happiness. What is happiness anyway? I guess it is different for everyone, but is there a standard of what it really means, and a way of obtaining it. I know if you are happy deep down with yourself, and what you have accomplished that maybe you might be generally happy. But in this day and age I find it hard to do. Look at this economy for example. People are losing jobs, going bankrupt, foreclosing, and just completely going crazy because of what the country has turned itself into. So how in this day and age do we "pursue" happiness?