"When you do things from your soul, You feel a river moving in you, a joy." -Rumi Morocco has given me a new outlook on life. I see things more clearly now. Ultimately I still don’t know what exactly I am on this earth to do (but who really does?) Will I work for the United Nations one day? Oh man I hope so. Will I join the Peace Corps after graduating? It’s a big possibility. Will I work on economic development and sustainability research in a third world country? Well I don’t know how my soul could ever be truly satisfied if I didn’t. Will I be a diplomat for the U.S. State department? Hmm that would be pretty cool. What about the FBI? Sure why not? Really all these things are big “maybes’ and “uncertain dreams” but what I have discovered living in Morocco is that I never want to stop learning. So maybe in a strange way I did figure out what I want to spend the rest of my life doing. All these questions I have that I want answers to, I need answers too. All the books on my list to read all the dates and names that need memorizing. All the concepts that need understanding. I crave the knowledge of the world and I never want to stop challenging myself and LEARNING. I truly believe education leads to freedom of the mind and soul to truly understand oneself along with the world. To be able to think for yourself with out the influence of some politically agenda driven news station. To be able to look at the facts and draw a conclusion simply based off of your ideas and thoughts. Education is such a beautiful gift and it pains me to see so many people my age taking it for granted. Mozambique showed me to appreciate my education and Morocco has given me a drive to never let it end. Today in my intermediate Arabic class my professor got off topic and began talking about how people have become to focused on the “to have” instead of the “to be” in life. The “to have” being all the materials, people, jobs, ect. that we think we need to have rather then the “to be” which is all the qualities and emotions we are like being happy, thankful, appreciative, hard working, blessed ect. Becoming obsessed with having to have things makes people loose sight of humanity. Life becomes more about posession than passion. Now a days people are so concerned with "I have to have this job to have this house to have this life style to have these people approve of me" which all leads to a never ending circle of disapointment when we should really be focusing on what to be. What sets your soul on fire? What makes your heart sing? What makes you feel like you have purpose on this earth? What makes you feel truly alive? I think we need to make the answers to questions like these our “to be’s”. To be educated. To be rich in wisdom. To be internally satisfied. To be humble. To be strong and independent. To be full of spirit and soul. To be alive. To feed that fire that lights your world and makes the meaning to life visible. Morocco hasn’t given me all the answers but its given me the answer I was looking for. My desire to know the unknown and never stop searching for the other answers. I hope one day I am fluent in Arabic and I hope one day I can say I read all those books on that list and know the dates of those important historical events that shaped the world as we know it today. Ill chase the answers and come up with more questions along the way. I’ll love with all I have and never forget to be me.
With all my love from the ends of the earth, Jess P.S. Remember TO BE YOU, light that fire friends.
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Hunter
2/25/2017 12:08:36 pm
Great article. The difference between "having" and "being" was well said! Enjoyed this a lot.
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