What Drives You?

Stop and ask yourself.. What Drives Me? Why do I do what I do? Is it for the money, is it for the love of the task at hand, is to impress others? I think that there are things in life that you have to stop and ask yourself,"Why am I doing this?" I always seem to default back to running, but it has become a true passion. One of those things that you look for. Look for what makes you smile in the thing that you are doing. I have become to look forward to the end of the day because I know that with the end comes running. I can then run and forget all the world for about an hour or so... It allows me to stop and forget the crazy around me and just focus on me. Focus on what my body can do and what God has blessed me with. You know that you need it. We all do, be honest. You dont take time for yourself and you need to. Whether it is running, biking, treadmilling, walking... whether it is knitting, reading, working on computer, designing... FIND THE PASSION AND STOP FOR YOURSELF. You have to. I have seen that with me and my life that running is that drive. The feeling of a runner's high is nothing that can be described... Meeting a goal of the fastest mile you have ever run... I am honest... Right now in school I am struggling to find the smile. With all of the paperwork, report cards to fill, notes to take, grades to write down in all kinds of places, children to keep calm, parents to talk to, and emotions to swallow. It is hard. I educate children and make them hoefully successful citizens in life. That is my real job. To have them leave my class with more knowledge than they came with... And days like today to see them in their elements: playing outside, running the school race, being with their friends are things that bring tears to my eyes as they are growing up and they are becoming young men and women. But stop and think; in both of my passions I have a love. You have to have a drive in what you do. If you don't, then find a new passion!