Something bigger

ckemmis
ckemmis Posts: 51 Member
edited January 5 in Chit-Chat
This is a completely random post and I just want to rant mainly, just to get it out of my system.

My husband and I were talking last night about my job situation. I work two part time jobs and go to school full time for elementary education, and once the new semester starts, I'm going to have to quit one of my jobs, taking away over half of my monthly income, because next semester is just going to be crazy with observation hours and a full course load. Anyway, I was debating about trying to find a different retail job that pays more and blah blah blah. His response was that I should just do what makes me happy, and not to worry about the money situation, because things could be worse (have I mentioned that I love him? =P)

Well that got me thinking, things really could be worse for us, and there are who knows how many people in the St. Louis area who are in worse situations, including children. As a teacher, I want to make an impact on my students, I don't just want to teach them what the state is requiring me to, but I want to have a positive impact on their lives so when they get older, they can make better decisions and have access to things that they may not have had before.

This of course, got me thinking of all of the different charities and organizations that help children and their parents, and while I could simply just donate money to those organizations or charities, I don't think that would be enough for me. I would love to see, first hand, the impact that I could have on a child by giving more. The problem is, I have no clue how to do this. I know that once I start teaching, I could purpose different fundraisers to help the students of the school district I'm working for, or I could try to start some type of my own organization to have a positive impact on people. All I know is that I want to be part of something bigger. I want to have an impact on not only my own personal students, but on other children as well. And if I can only affect 10 children a year, that's fine, I would still consider that a success because I did what I wanted to, but the possibility of helping countless amount of children, that would just be amazing.

(Sigh) And that's my little rant for the day. I do have to give credit to my husband though, because without him saying what he did, this whole thought process would have come along later, rather than sooner. I will be looking into things though, probably once I get this final project out of the way, to see what I can do. Laters!

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