Quarter-life Crisis

I remember listening John Mayer's first album about 5 years ago and hearing the lyric about the quarter life crisis. I secretly hoped I would get my chance to have one. Well, here I am. Eleven months from the big 2-5. Still in college. It even gets worse: I'll still be a semester and a half from graduation when I turn 25. Twenty-five will be a big year. I'll FINALLY graduate college and then start my first job (teaching).

I used to beat myself up about not going to college right after I graduated high school. I still do occasionally..especially when most of my classmates are talking about partying it up for their 21st birthday. Geez, I feel old.

But I have chosen to view the the way my life has turned out at this point, so to speak, as the plan God has intended from before I was born. Yes, there are things I could have done differently, but if I could go back, would I?

Not a chance.

I know that I am in the exact place that God would have me be. What I am doing is stretching me. It is forcing me to figure out who I am and what I want to be. And it goes beyond just what I need to know to be a great teacher. I am being challenged to find my purpose and then allow that to drive what I do.

So, hit me with your best shot, quarter-life crisis. I'm ready.

But don't be too mean..please?