This is really the last thing I ever thought I’d be doing. Starting my own blog that is. I’ve just never understood the point of them. Why would you ever want to share your innermost feelings and thoughts for the whole world to read? Just get a journal for pete’s sake. But I have to admit, I was wrong. I was inspired to start this blog by a nursing student blog that I read about a month ago when I was having a small freakout, wondering of OT school was actually right for me and debating about applying to nursing schools. My mom was a nurse, but she went to school almost 30 years ago and the challenges of nursing school back then were certainly different than they would be today. I needed something where I could really understand the innermost thoughts and feelings of a nursing student. I couldn’t stop reading it. The posts were so real, so well written. I felt like I was going through exactly what she was going through. And through that blog, I realized that nursing school probably isn’t the right choice for me.
But I am 99.9% sure that occupational therapy is the right profession for me. The .1% of doubt? Nothing wrong with it. Doubt is what keeps us questioning, keeps us evaluating, keeps us reflecting. For a long time I thought that if this isn’t what I wanted to do with my life right now that I’d be stuck in it forever. But while my college career as I have known it may be over, my life outside of undergraduate school is a completely unwritten book. Maybe the beginning of graduate school marks the beginning of that new book. And this blog? Well it’s just a few of the pages.
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