Growing Old

"It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams."
~Gabriel Garcia Marquez

I'm 23 years old. I've been teaching since I was 19. I started teaching playwriting through the California Playwright's Project where I got to teach at a myriad of schools and got to meet a multitude of different personalities. When Taylor Swift was 22 and singing about "eating breakfast at midnight" and "dressing up like hipsters", I was a high school teacher teaching kids who were doing the same things as Taylor Swift. I have felt very old for a very long time, even though the truth is I'm still young and I've still got things to do with my hopefully long life. I am lucky enough to be a teacher--with students around me constantly who make me feel both very old and very young at the same time. The students around me are constantly dreaming--and one of my major dreams is to help my students achieve theirs. However, where I am REALLY lucky is that my students move me to remember my own dreams on a daily basis. A few of these dreams include one day:

1. Moving to Madrid and teaching English
2. Living in Italy
3. Traveling to Budapest
4. Getting a Masters degree in Fine Arts (Theatre emphasis)
5. Getting productions of plays I have written
6. Getting a degree in Psychology
7. Writing and producing and performing my music
8. Finding love and happiness