Circles on paper

What makes you happy?

Take a second and think about it.

Is it a noun?  Is it a verb?

When I was in college, one of my professors asked me to get a piece of paper out.  He told me to draw two circles that touched on the paper.  On one side he told me to write down everything that I loved.  Then on the other side he told me to write down everything I was good at.  In the section that interlaced he asked me to write down the things I was good at and loved to do.  He said my calling was somewhere in there.

 

Here I am, post graduation working a great job and yet I feel incomplete.  I have a degree from one of the top 20 schools in the nation and a job that sometimes feels like play time.  I have a fiancé who I adore and plan to marry soon, and yet something is off.

 

I don’t think I’ll ever be a nine to five kind of girl. I need to find something inside those two circles.  I need to professionally go back to those two circles my first semester of college, sitting in Dr. Estes’ room.  I’m going back there soon.

Say your words