Occupation: Daydreamer

 Do you ever get overwhelmed thinking about how you will never be able to do all things you want to do in this lifetime? Maybe you won’t be able to travel to all the places you want to travel, or live in all the different places you want to live, or read all of the books you want to read (all of these haunt me, personally). 

Another one I think about often is how I will never be able to pursue all of the career paths that I’m interested in. 

Like what do you mean I won’t be able to experience performing brain surgery, flying a plane, or being a professional athlete?! 

Okay in all reality… 

Brain surgeon - Could never do it. Even talking about medical things makes me queasy. 

Pilot- I’ll skip on this one…have you ready any headlines lately? 

Professional athlete-I would crumble under the pressure of thousands of people in the stands counting on me to lead my team to victory. (Not to mention, have you ever even seen me try to play a sport? Hahaha)

But, there are plenty of careers that I am interested in that I wish I could experience or, at the very least, complete a little trial run.

Here are a few and why: 

• Librarian  

I love reading. 

I love talking to people about reading. 

I love bonding over books. 

I love seeing children get excited over books and stories. 

I love how reading can take you to different cities, to different time periods, to different universes. 

Books are cool! 

I know that being a librarian doesn’t consist of just sitting around reading books and talking to others about books, but I do feel that it would be fun and rewarding career for me.

P.S. I am always open to book recommendations :)  

• Teacher 

When I first applied and was accepted into college, my major was Education. By the time my freshman year began, I had already decided against pursuing teaching as a career. Although I didn’t follow this original dream, I still think I would like to experience being a teacher. If it was my choice, I would want to teach elementary school, maybe first or second grade. In high school I participated in an internship program where I left school at lunchtime to finish the day at a local elementary school. That year I helped out in the first grade classrooms under truly amazing and special teachers whose hearts were fully into teaching and creating a fun and safe space for their students. The children were absolutely adorable and watching them grow and become more confident in themselves and their abilities was priceless. Dont get me wrong, they were also exhausting and little terrors at times. But seeing a child learn or grasp a new concept is truly something magical. 

• Sign Language Interpreter

I think it’s fascinating that people can speak a language using their hands and body language without any spoken words. I spent my sophomore year of college at California State University Northridge. CSUN is known for having a notable amount of deaf and hard of hearing students. During my year there, I took mostly general education courses and it was common to have an interpreter in my classroom interpreting the lessons for deaf and/or hard of hearing students. I always found it pretty cool and in the beginning spent more time focusing on the interpreter than the professor, lol. 

• CEO of a Billion Dollar Company 

IDK I just feel like I could do it better than some of these current CEOs. 

Being able to own a home and a couple jet skis would also be a perk. Might even get a little crazy and rent out a suite to take my husband to a Coldplay concert or something.  

• Jane Goodall

No notes. 

What careers would you try, no holds barred? 

Xx. Kaila 

Allow Me to Reintroduce Myself…

 If I were to have to introduce myself to a stranger and share five facts about myself I would still struggle to come up with five things to say. I’m not sure that that will ever change, because the idea of having to come up with five unique things about myself automatically shuts down my brain altogether. 

I might tell you that I am a reader or that I grew up in the Midwest. Maybe I would mention that I have two siblings or share what my favorite colors are at the moment (plum, maroon, grey, sage). It’s hard to come up with five things, but also impossible to truly capture the complexities of a person in just five facts. 

One thing I do know is that I miss writing. I have always enjoyed the art of writing and then going back and rereading, restructuring, omitting, adding. Writing often brings me to tears. Whether it be tears of joy, of sadness, or tears of release, writing is my own little therapy. I started journaling this past year but now I think I am ready to share some of my words with others. 

My last post on this platform was made five and a half years ago (to the date!). More than half of a decade ago.

In that amount of time, many things have happened. Many things have come. Many things have left. Many things have been felt. Many things have been said. Many experiences have been lived. Many memories have been created.

I have changed in many ways that I have noticed and probably in even more ways that I have not. 

I look forward to returning to writing and sharing more of who I am through my words. 

Xo - Kaila