Friday, August 31, 2012

Lost and Happy

Me, looking for direction and enjoying the scenery


My name is Steph.  I work as a Mental Health Tech at a Psychiatric Hospital.  I love the job, enjoy the patients and am thankful everyday for the chance to be useful to someone in some of their life's darkest moments.  I have a passion for making the world a better place.  I thrive off interesting people, you know, the ones with stories and adventures that outshine Hollywood with all their rarity of real life and human behavior.  I am really into traveling the world, seeing it from different angles and taking it all in with an open mind.

After deciding many times what I wanted to do with my life, I have reached a final decision: I have no idea.  However, I am never happier than when I am lost.  I like being forced to see and feel each moment because of the lack of a tangible finish line to sprint towards.  I am lost in the garden; it's a step past stopping to smell the roses.   

My current ideas on what I want to be when I grow up (I'm 28 years old) are: a humanitarian aid worker, a physician, a surgical physician's assistant, something in public health, a therapist, a paramedic for disaster relief, a social worker, anything for the WHO, the UN or UNICEF, Doctors Without Borders or MAP International as long as I get to work where I have something useful to offer those who need it most.  I want to fight for human rights and promote the empowerment of people everywhere.
  

It's Time...

Well original, we can flow, we test the waters,
deep or low, temperature set to explode,
never stop until it's gold, through the fire through the cold,
over mountains down the road, cities come and cities go,
movin' individuals.
Well if you seen us then you know we ain't tryin' to be no one,
we just dirty headed kids from the city of the sun,
and I wish that we could stay but it's time for us to shine,
if your friends are friends of love then your friends are friends of mine...

If you come to be yourself original let it shine.
If all your friends are friends of love then they're all friends of mine.

~Dirty Heads "Shine"
Northern Mexico Desert, 2010 Road Trip, Photo by Jeremy Bell