I am a lot more sure of my purpose after internship. That purpose has gotten a lot broader than it may have been before, but for something I have struggled deeply to find, I’m pretty damn sure of it now. I want to make youth feel heard and make youth feel powerful. During my internship I was able to exactly that. While making a video that showcased students advocating for an Outdoor Outreach program in their school, I had to stay late and work at home but I couldn’t have cared less. I was allowing students to be heard and that’s all that mattered. Before internship, I was pretty much set on that I wanted to be a high school english teacher. I now have this more broad goal, but I like that freedom. During my internship, I was blessed enough to have the absolutely amazing woman that is Regina Kruglyak as my mentor. She is the definition of a free spirit, constantly travelling and finding ways to be able to incorporate her passion in her work. She has played a big part in realizing that I need to take things at my own pace and prioritize who I am over who others want me to be. One of the last things that she said to me was to be open to anything. It wasn’t until that moment that I realized that it doesn’t matter what I’m doing, but what I am getting and giving through it. Science isn’t my passion, but I still found passion in the work I was doing because it was giving students a voice. Outdoor learning isn’t my passion, but I recognize that it helps a lot of kids in a variety of ways and working to support that is my passion. I hope that in finding my passion AND my purpose, I will be able to persevere through work even when I don’t feel is directly contributing to my passion. With my passion as my guiding force by my purpose as the lense I look at life, I hope to be able to tie whatever I am doing to these two things. For the first time in my life, I am not scared of the vagueness that the future holds, I am excited by it. It means that as long as I know my purpose, I have the clay that I then am able to mold to whatever I feel drawn to at any given time in my life.
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