State of Placelessness
I frequently talk about everyone's path and their trajectory in life, and I am now finding myself looking into my path in life now more than ever. I was settled, I was comfortable, I was locked in as a teacher solidified in the community. Living on my own, paying bills, budgeting, getting a new car, etc. I was living a "grown up" life. After my job was cut I have found myself looking into an entirely new path. Now I am not saying that my old path has discontinued as I am hoping to eventually find my way back to it, but I am saying that this period in my life is going to be dubbed as the exploration portion of my life. It is this weird sense of placelessness, and in this state I often think back on all the facebook posts I had read previously about stages of lives. Everyone is at their own pace and no pace is better or worse, it just takes some people longer to wander into their position in life. This was a frustrating concept to me at first because I had everything so fig