Why am I here?
Think about your current purpose in life, and how you got here – whether it’s a place or a situation.
I found this prompt online and thought I'd give it a try. This is such a cool question. Okay, so right now I am in an apartment in Chicago and I work as a school psychologist. How did I get here? That goes all the way back to when I was applying to colleges in high school. When I was applying to colleges I wasn't ready to go far away from home and I didn't really know anything about what I wanted--but what college senior really does? I applied to St. Mary, Avila, and Rockhurst. All small liberal arts Catholic colleges close to home. I ended up not getting a big enough scholarship to St. Mary so I ended up at Rockhurst.
At Rockhurst, I had the time of my life. Hold on---I just realized this goes back even further.
When I was 17, my grandpa took our family to Colorado. Growing up in Kansas, I had never really seen anything different than Kansas before. I had only been to Nebraska and stuff like that. All flat, all pretty much the same. I loved Kansas City and honestly thought I would probably always live there. But the moment I saw the mountains, I realized that there was so much more out there than I had ever known and from that moment on, I knew that I wouldn't be content without seeing the world and I wouldn't be content without finding out what else was out there.
Okay, back to Rockhurst. At RU, I came in as a business major, thinking I would pursue sports marketing in the hopes of working for the Royals some day. I quickly realized--business is god awful boring. I switched to psychology after having taken an incredibly interesting intro class from a great professor, Dr. Nicolai. I ended up taking an independent study with Dr. Nicolai supervising and submitted my research to the midwest psychological association conference which happened to be in Chicago my senior year.
I definitely thought Chicago would be fun, but was convinced it would be way too big of a city for me. Yeah, sooo I was wrong again. I fell in love the minute I felt the energy of the city. I knew that I would live there one day.
A year passed with me working in KC after graduation and once I got the idea to go into school psychology after having worked with kids in a few different settings, I applied to school in Chicago. I was accepted in the winter and after having the summer of my life at Philmont (a whole 'nother blog post), I moved to the city.
You can see previous blog posts to know that the first year I was here I didn't have friends here. I learned to love the city and I learned how to be happy alone. But I am so grateful that I did meet my friends (see my last blog post). And now here I am, writing this blog post to you sitting on my couch in Chicago with my cat on my lap.
Life has a funny way of working out in ways you sometimes don't see coming at all.
Be open to what life sends your way. It may take you to great places.
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taken during my first trip to Chicago
Falling in love with the mountains
celebrating two years in Chicago.
Feeling like this is home.
