It's no longer just about me

Troughout my whole life I've always aimed high for selfish reasons, to live a luxurious life. To take my kids to the best private schools, to live in a expensive life. My family supported that idea, except their vision was through medicine, to become a doctor and then go back to our home country and open a private clinic. Which is why I started of my academic life geared towards medicine, demonstrated by A level (studied between 16-18 usually) and GCSE (Examinations taken at 16) choices and also all the volunteer work I used to look for and do. But I'm so happy that medicine didn't work out for me (you don't hear that very often I think) don't get me wrong I love the knowledge is entails. I'm passionate about life sciences-well just the parts that apply to humans.
But I've come to realise that I don't want to be a doctor -for now anyway, it's a hard job and its not worth the stress and pressure if its just about the money.

But I'm averting from my point. My country is just getting back from it's feet after 20 years of civil war, lots of organisation are getting started up to help better it. After watching a couple of youtube clips about people going back and making a huge difference, be it through medicines, new hospitals, schools and universities. I feel like it's also my duty to go back and make a difference in peoples lives, a difference in the quality of water they drink, increase their aspirations and make millions of dreams possible. I've had it really easy in the west and I've never been to my home country. In England there is income support for those who need it, free education and also free school meals for those children whose parents are unemployed. In my country however there is no such thing, you get what you work for, and work is scarce in war torn areas, in fact if the husband dies in a family, they will forever be poor. unless/until the children are old enough, or they have family abroad.

Which is why I've decided tonight that I really should stop acting spoilt, who cares if any job I get into just pays the minimum wage, or if I end up on benefits, at least it's something. Not that I've set my standards low but we really should appreciate what we have.

God willing I will make a huge difference to those who really need it. One school and One hospital at a time.

You see it's no longer about just me, it's about my people.