365 Questions--August 21

Something I thought about a lot as a child was…

Briana as a little girl....my mind was all over the place. Not much has changed even though I'm a grown woman now. My family and my career are always in the forefront of my thinking. My family is my entire world. They're wellbeing means everything to me. I just want everybody to be okay. As a child, I saw a lot of things and heard (and actually understood) a lot that I probably shouldn't have been exposed to, and because of that I worry. I'm always thinking about what I can do to help the situation or change the circumstances. I remember being 5 years old and the D.A.R.E. people came to my school. I'm not sure if they still come around or not, but pretty much it's a drug prevention program that used to come to schools. They came to talk to my class, and what I took from the conversation was that smoking will kill you. My grandaddy smoked cigarettes heavily my whole life. I would call him every single day and say "Granddaddy, you stopped smoking yet?" Then he would proceed to curse me out like he did anybody that tried to tell him what to do 😂😂. "Okay Granddaddy, you better stop before you get cancer and die." If I skipped a day in talking to him and telling him that, I would send him a letter or card with the same thing because I cared that much. 

As far as my career, I was all over the place as a kid. One day I want to be a singer, the next I wanted to be a dancer, the next I wanted to be a teacher, the day after that I wanted to be a doctor. I just didn't know what I wanted to do. By the time I got to be about 13 or 14, I wanted to be a child psychologist. So I went to school, got my Bachelors in psychology with the intention of being a therapist. I was going to go to school for marriage and family therapy, but I changed my mind and went to school for social work. Life happened, and I threw that dream away. Now I'm quickly approaching graduation for my masters and I have not the slightest idea what I want to do. I have an idea of what I would be okay with doing, but can I make a lifelong career out of that? Not only that, would I be happy in a lifelong career there? It's always replaying in my head. Then I have to decide if I'm going to leave Augusta. I don't want to leave my church, but if I move where am I going to go to church. Where am I going to move to?