I Had a Career Path in 6th Grade-What Happened to It?

In 6th grade I helped a girl realize she needed to talk to a counselor.  She would not go unless I went with her, from the moment I saw the interaction between her and the counselor, that was my life.  I wanted to be a Junior High Counselor and help people like my friend.

What the heck happened then?  I am obviously not a Junior High Counselor.  

Well, what had happened was, I made excuses, I gave up, I justified it all and settled for a life less extraordinary.  I had support but no one pushing me.  I had limited means and ways.  I decided I didn't like children.  I started making good money, more than teachers make for sure.  Blah, blah, blah.

The fact is, I chickened out.  I attended maybe a year and some months of TJC doing my basics and decided after a trip to the zoo during end of year field trips that I would change my majors to computers.  Then I got married and got cut off from free college money so I got a full-time job.  Then another one and another one.  Still didn't really like children or their parents.  Lost sight of the dream so to speak.  

One day I realized  I still wanted to help other people, how to do it was the question.  I had recently had a very successful weight-loss journey and that helped my mental wellness and my spirits and I wanted to spread the word, so I attended IIN for holistic health and wellness coaching.  Loved every minute of learning more about primary and secondary foods and listening to the experts and practical people who had put it into practice successfully.  I got high on practicing with other students on health histories and sharing with my friends.  I felt like donkey kong on crack after I left a client session.  I became a Happiness Coach, helping others find their happiness in whatever form that might take.  I give more of that away than I charge for really, it is just in my servants heart to help others.  

There have been several times over the last 36 years that the counselor bug has bit me again and again.  I would take a career aptitude test and test out to be a counselor, teacher, coach, etc..  I would see a need I wanted to fill.  I would be speaking to friends, kids, parents and wonder, what if I had of stayed the course.  

It has bitten again and I am wondering what to do with it all.

I felt led to post about women over 40 supporting and lifting one another up from a post a friend did that receive such love and support to and from the post and pondered why we could not have done that in school.  What can we do to teach these young girls to love each other and support one another instead of tearing one down and competing and just being mean because they can?  What can we change so that it does not take these girls 30 plus years to figure out we are all in it together?  As I am reading the post again and the responses the bug bites me hard.  Junior High Counselor would surely be equipped with the tools needed and a pretty captive audience.  Then I am back in Junior High and High School were I was bullied and then became the bully.  Why?  How do you stop it?  What can I do to make the world a little better place each and every day?

Here I sit, 48 and counting, what next?

Is the path still there?

Is my inner 6th-grader still doing cartwheels in the hall when she figured it out?

Points to Ponder for Sure!