Where does Our Passion Come From? The Child Within...
When I was a little girl (she looks really serious -doesn't she?) I used to love to play school teacher with my little brother and sisters. Mostly only my little brother would cooperate, but I digress. My favorite thing about it was calling roll, taking attendance if you will. Do you remember when we used to do that in class? I was in a WordPress class at my local Community Ed a couple of weeks ago and someone came in and did that. When I said "Here", I was immediately transported back to childhood and taking roll with my pretend classroom, which usually was only one student, my brother, like I said.(Sorry...fun to giggle at that now.)
I also loved to go to the library and do research and write in my diary. I kept famous quotes on 3x5 cards in a file box and I took meticulous notes on sermons at church. I liked the sermons so much more than the stand up/ sit down singing parts. I also loved to go around the neighborhood and create news stories. I had my own little newspaper. There was no training for any of this back then, it was all just childhood play I invented in my head. How I would love to go back and do it again. As I got older I thought I wanted to be a teacher or a preacher and went to college. First I studied Bible, and then I studied Elementary Education, in which I ended up getting a Purdue degree.
In retrospect, I am surprised I didn't dabble in journalism or writing during my education. It would have come in useful now.Thank goodness they made us take typing in high school, huh?
In the first many decades of my life I didn't use any of this so much. I ended up getting a Masters in Management and was a CEO of a social sector organization. But these natural bents never go away. They call at us from somewhere deep inside.
Where am I going with this on this Sunday morning of my third week with WA? Just that for the first time in a long time I am experiencing the bliss of my youth as I create my first website. I love learning new things and putting them together in new ways. If WordPress would have been around when I was 10 years old, I would have been one of the first to create a blog. This is fun to the core for me - even the hard parts! To think someday I may even be able to make some money at it, well, I think I'd be doing this even if that weren't true, and that is the mark of being on to something truly worthwhile!
A special shout out to all of you who have helped me this week.You know who you are!
Let's make it a great week, fellow WAers!
Shell Summers
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Really neat and meaningful post, Shell. Smooth easy flow and connects so beautifully with your reader and gives the feeling that you are warm, genuine and open. I think we often have to stop on our journey to who we are for a few yrs. to make a living and then can begin to get acquainted with our self again when the pressure is less.
Have a great WA week.
Harold
Harold, thank you for acknowledging my post. You are so right. I hope your week is going well. Shell
The inner child is the pathway to freedom and creativity and reconnecting with my own inner child has completely turned my life around as I am recovering from years of abuse and addiction
Loved you posts thanks for sharing
Barry
One of the things I like about website development is that there is always new things to learn and new challenges to conquer. You don't really have time to get bored or become complacent because there's always more to do:)
So true, Steve, my list of edits to make, videos to watch, pages to reorganize, links to fix just keeps growing by the day. Never a dull moment of wondering what I'm going to do next. ~Shell
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I have to agree with you completely in regards to your comments about your natural bents. I think that each of us are, really are, "created", and are known as unique beings; that we are given different skills, and talents and abilities. It is funny, in that in this world, it seems that often we connect with those talents and abilities as children, then drift away, or are pulled away by a dysfunctional educational system, or by other factors. If we are lucky (and I think we in this forum are) we run into an opportunity to reconnect witht those natural bents and become the person we were created to be. One of the most profound statements I ever heard came out of the mouth of a less than sophisticated person, but it helped me look a bit differently at the world...it went something like......God don't make no junk. Hope you have a great day.