While I still enjoy teaching (and interacting with young people), I have begun to feel time catching up to me. There are so many things that I want do, places I want to see and goals that I want to accomplish that spending 8-10 hours per day in a classroom was beginning to feel like a strain. I do not want to call it wasting time, but I have begun to have a desire to move in a different direction. And it is through this choice that I have begun to explore the idea of true “happiness” and what it entails.