Last night, I went for a stroll in the frigid rain.  I walked through the park with only the moonlight seeping through the rain laden maple trees to guide me.

There are several pivotal moments in a persons life that will forever change his or her life.  I am at one of those moments.  There are paths that we all take either by fate or by choice.  Sometimes we pace in a circle so long that we create a trench that we can’t get out of.  The unknown path can be the best to take.

What are human beings but explorers?  The words person and individual fall under explorer in most Thesaurus’s.  How can we learn, if we do not explore our minds and world around us and beyond our sight?

Illumination has been great importance in my life over the past four years.  I spent the first two-thirds of my life in seclusion.  I was made to believe that the world outside the little bubble I lived in was evil and horrific. 

Now that I have broken out of that shallow bubble, I see a world full of good people such as myself.  America is not God’s country, the entire globe belongs to God.  The petty differences we have over race and religion are ludicrous, when one thinks about how similar we are. 

The hopes and dreams of the world are so alike.  No matter where a person may grow up or what rung on the social ladder they are put on by birth, they want the same things as you and me.  Do we not all need food, shelter, and love?  Do we not all look up at the stars at night and wonder?

For a long time, I’ve had this overwhelming feeling pushing me to explore beyond what I am accustomed to.  I am at a point in my life, where I feel that I must push myself and go beyond that which I have done in the past.

I do not hate the place where I was born, nor do I hate my country of origin.  But, there is still an underlying impression that I must leave for my own good.  That is why I tried the move to Ireland.

To live in one place all of my life and never make a difference in the grand scheme of things is utterly useless.  There is nothing holding me here, so I might as well take a leap of faith. 

I would like your honest opinion about something.  I am seriously considering joining the Peace Corp.  If I join, I can help people all over the world.  I’d learn a new culture and learn a great deal from the local people.  It’d be a simple existence for two years, but it’d be worth it.  So, should I go for it?

Mind you, I’d have to be medically cleared, which would be a huge task of its own.  I would have to work hard to help out the locals, but it’d be well worth the sweat in the end.

They’d probably send me to somewhere like Honduras or Belize, since I speak Spanish.  But, they could send me to Africa or as far east as Kazakhstan.  I can prefer a region but they make the ultimate decision based on my skills.

What say you?