If life is a bowl of cherries, what am I doing in the pits?

In the past couple of months, it seems I've lost the passion for what I want to do in life. I always had that drive to teach, but what happens when you keep looking for opportunities and don't find them? You stop trying; you stop looking for those opportunities. I lost myself in the process. I find it difficult to find my teaching mojo. I have moments here and there where I think I've found it. I just wish it was consistent.

Yesterday, I had a student and I seriously felt that she was a mirror image of myself. She's struggling to find her purpose in life and setting goals in her life just like myself. A part of me wants to start fresh with a new career where I can still work with the people I love working with--kids. Another part of me wants to keep trying in what I've already worked hard for. I guess it's now a matter of choosing and taking action.

I guess I should practice what I teach. Here are some of my goals:

1. Find what inspires me and rekindles the passion in me so that I may find that drive to teach or go back to school for whatever may lay ahead in the future.

2. Look at the world with a positive outlook so that I'm not down in the pits where it's dark and uninspiring.

3. Reconnect with friends who inspire me to live and laugh so that I may become the person I used to be and always will be--bubbly and happy.