metis

I think I was divinely guided when I decided not to pursue a path in academia. There is a weird power in knowing that you could easily do and succeed at something and choosing not to because of a blind faith in a stranger and bigger possibility for oneself. I think everyone has this, like maybe my equivalent of not doing grad school is someone else’s equivalent of leaving a seemingly happy marriage. You could continue, you could even thrive, but there is something more out there to learn. I also felt this when I left my well paying clinical research job. Of course I can easily do this and climb the ladder. But it would have shrunk me and the essence of who I am meant to be. I quit that job, I submitted my writing on a whim and got a spot in a residency with money, and I moved to Portugal and changed my own life in the span of 6 months. Now I’m circling back to old places, feeling so me. I’m doing me and filling the world with ME!