that’s where i am right now. you’re obviously a lot farther ahead in your progress so i thought i’d check in as to whether this is just a phase or just how it is now.

i want to go to tanzania in the summer. my passion has been international health since long before the C-word came and shat all over me, and i don’t intend to let it stop me, now… especially now. i have the opportunity to live out one of my dreams, but everyone is telling me i’m crazy. now that i’m finally living life how i’ve always been told i should live it — as though it may end without warning — i am being told to live in fear, in reservation, in absence of the things i have always aspired to do. i have actually been told to redirect my interests to more “local, safe” activities!

i say eff all of them. i also say i NEED to go just to prove to myself (and the rest of the world) i will not die simply by spending my summer in Africa.

did you ever experience this kind of desperate need to grab life by the horns and just LIVE IT?

thank you for your support. i don’t even know you and you’ve become _my_ Angel.