A year ago, my life was in a completely different place than it's at now. This time last year I was gallivanting around the far side of the world, at the beginning of an amazing adventure that was nothing more than a beautiful mystery to me. Now, instead of living out of my backpack, traveling from country to country, continent to continent, encountering new cultures, making new friends, and reconnecting with old friends, I'm back where I started. I'm living in the same place and, in a lot of ways, doing the same things.
However, because of the experiences I've been through and the people who have touched my life over the past year, I'm in the same place doing the same things with a new direction and a new intentionality. Come Monday, I'm heading back to school. I'll be starting a very long and challenging journey towards a Master of Arts in Global Leadership at Fuller Seminary. Needless to say, my life is about to make some drastic changes.
The degree I'm pursuing is an online degree. This means I don't have to sit through any boring or confusing lectures, but it also means I have to do a TON of reading ... not exactly my forte. I will need to restructure my life to prioritize accordingly. That means figuring out where things like work, school, relationships, photography, social life, etc. all come into play in relation to each other. Areas of my life will suffer, people will likely get let down, I will likely burn myself out from time to time (especially at the beginning), and hopefully I'll be able to endure this time and will be a better person because of it all. Time will tell, I suppose.
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