After graduating high school and finding myself quite directionless, I spent a year with a group called Absolute (absolute.org) as a student. I traveled Western Canada for 4 taking part in motivation presentations about purpose, honesty and self-worth. We also did in-classroom discussions on these three topics as well. Our mission was to bring a message of hope to high school students, showing each and every one of them that they are not alone and that every one is here with a purpose.
I then spent another 4 months living in small town Baja, Mexico. I helped to host humanitarian trips, aimed at high school students but open to everyone, called Hero Holidays! Groups of students would come to Mexico, we would take care of accomodation and food for them and we would guide them in getting to know a family and building a home for this family. This is where my heart truely is.
Since returning home I have made a number of small but difficult changes in my life, including switching to fair trade coffee, recycling and power conservation. Even though I have made these small changes, now that I spend everyday in a classroom learning how to use different computer programs, accounting, and english, my purpose seems to be lost again.
I am frustrated with what I do on a daily basis, I feel stagnant and like I am a burden to this planet again. I have been searching for everyday ways to fufill my humanitarian heart...this is one of the ways I would like to do this. In the next few entries, I will tell you more of my plan to pull myself out of this little slump and "change the world" one action at a time.
:)
Kristi