When I get where I'm goin'.

    Throughout high school, I had too many interests to choose from and never focused in on any of them. I didn't play sports EVER, art was a joke until senior year and no other activities caught my attention. So I did absolutely nothing in high school besides going to class and getting good enough grades. I never tried hard enough to have excellent grades so I could get scholarships or grants for college. I didn't pay attention to any of that until it was too late. I didn't even want to go to college until half way through my junior year and it's too late to start caring by then.
    So then it's my Senior year and I'm scrambling to make a plan. (I liked plans back when I was making my own road signs instead of just reading the ones that were already there for me.) The plan I came up with was Florida. I ran away to Florida, took a semester at the community college for business, passed with flying colors, (failed the running away miserably) and moved back after 6 months. Plan over...
    Insert more scrambling, more creative road sign making and yet another fool proof plan.
    This one (on paper) says I did not fail. I went to Clark State for photography.

• It was always an in between thing until I figured out the details of Interior Design.
• It was creative. (I love being creative)
• I had an interest in learning photography as a hobby.

    Now onto why I am not a photographer even though a piece of paper says I am...

• I took the whole program while using the school cameras and computers with photoshop so I rarely had extra opportunities to practice or play around on my own and still don't.
• Since it was only for a hobby most of the stuff just didn't sink in.
• I have ADD and started taking medicine to help me concentrate after this program so if I did it all over again I'd probably feel better about my knowledge and skills.

    I'll have to pay for that piece of paper that says, "I'm a Photographer", soon but I don't regret that one bit. I may not have failed the classes at the time but I am certainly not a photographer. But without the photography classes I wouldn't have needed an internship which wouldn't have gotten me that invite to that church picnic I am so thankful for.
    That's where I started putting down the hand made road signs and reading the ones that were already there. You may be making your own plans right now and it seems like its going just right but when it all changes down the road just put down your signs and look for His.
    Now that I'm reading His signs I know I'm in the right school for Interior Design. It's what I've been interested in for a long time so I have little to no trouble paying attention. I was recently very stressed about the commute, money, rent and jobs and once again by following His signs I am relieved of the stress and I know I have made the right decisions for my future.
    So although I have a piece of paper that says I am a photographer, my mistakes of not paying enough attention in the classes and only just passing them and my inabilities prove otherwise. But the photography program was a thread in a different part of my life that I definitely needed to get me as far as I am in my life today. Just another amazing thing God has done for me.

#StayHappy

Concentrate, there's a lot of sparkly things out there to catch your attention.


    ******Now I'm not knocking my mad skills at being a photographers assistant! I did learn enough for that awesome job! Keeping track of things, ordering things, organizing things, ya know that's my thing with a photography spin!******


Now please enjoy the song you've been singing since you read the title...