A short reflection on turning right

As a kid I knew I would group up to be a psychologist. I flirted with a law and film career for a bit and then returned to my intellectual “motherland.” As I near the end of my Australia trip where I attended the International AIDS Conference as a presenter I note I have made my intellectual dreams as a little girl come true.

At the thursday morning plenary, there was a discussion on the potential use of technology in facilitating a healthier world where we attempt to reach a world without AIDS. I felt dizzy with excitement. This is the path of my research. I am heading in the right direction and it was fabulous to get an indirect shout out of sorts.

Someone recently reminded me of Steve Jobs’ statement in which he noted that we should ask ourselves what we want to be and what we want to leave behind. We should engage in this self-reflection on a continual basis. If for three days in a row we are not on a particular track we want to be on, then we have a problem that should be addressed.

I have been using my time in Australia (the time change has me in a time warp) to engage in this intense reflection. Am I in track? On the larger picture, it appears that I am. The little girl I was in the South Bronx would be wowed by this week. She would giggle and do a dance for mom. I sit hear and I am today doing a little dance inside my head.

Recently, I was utilizing a GPS that exhorted me to take a right at the fork. I get it. Turn right. I have reflected and I have made many childhood dreams come true and then some. As an adult, I have new dreams for which I am to chart a course. I am in the middle of some exciting new intellectual and travel adventures. But it can always be kicked up higher.

Its time to acknowledge childhood dreams guided me but now there are my adulthood dreams going forward. We should always grow and develop nee dreams and not get fixated in addressing those childhood dreams. As adults, our needs, desires and wishes also count. I still want to be a psychologist. I also want to feed my creativity hunger. I want nurture my body and not stress it for needless drama. I want to be a happy role model for my son and continue to learn new things. Those items are on my daily checklist for which I am to attune my life GPS so that I stay on the right course at every life fork.