Feeling Like Jenn Again... Finally.

Another life lesson I have learned:

During my first year out of college, I have done a lot of growing, discovering, and questioning. I have learned that it is quite common for twenty or thirty-something-year olds to experience a sense of disconnection from themselves after college. It's scary. What's also scary is that I was becoming one of those people.

I have always been self-assured of who I am but there was a time there, during my transition from college student to full-time-working woman, where I was starting to forget who I actually was. I was losing myself. I found myself getting stuck in a rut and not doing what made me happy (which are sports, Jesus, and service). During a small amount of time after college, I was feeling disconnected from myself and wondering why I wasn't doing what made me happy.

I sat down and asked myself these questions:

• "What makes me happy?"
• "What makes me Jenn?"
• "Am I doing them?"
• "If not, why not?"

Asking myself these questions was life changing. I then came to realize something very important: This sense of disconnection from myself led me to the conclusion that when you feel a disconnection from yourself, scary things begin to happen. I believe that when you start to lose a connection to yourself, less things in the world make sense, confusion can lead to unhappiness, and your disconnection then can lead to a disconnection with Jesus.

It is a scary thing thing when you begin to forget who you are, lose yourself, and stop doing the things that make you happy. When you start to feel that sense of disconnection from yourself, how are you able to understand what God is doing in your life? You begin to expect the wrong things from Christ and get frustrated with Him when nothing in your life makes sense. What you SHOULD be doing instead is sitting down, ask yourself those questions mentioned earlier, CONNECT WITH YOURSELF, and get to know yourself all over again.

• Reconnecting with yourself can lead to a reconnection with Jesus.
• Reconnection with Jesus can lead to life making more sense and you having a clearer picture of what your purpose is on this earth.
• You being able to identify your purpose can lead to happiness.

 Today, I am happy to say that I am doing what gives me a sense of fulfillment and am feeling like Jenn again... finally.  Because of this refreshing sense of reconnection with myself, I feel like it has only strengthened my walk with Christ and that is a feeling that can't be beat.

My friends, we need to be in constant connection with ourselves. It is so easy to forget who we are and what we stand for when life is happening. We are each made and tailored into our own person and we need to be doing what keeps us connected with ourselves and what makes us happy. I'm sure that I will find myself disconnected again at some point, but now I know what to do when that happens again.

 Who are you? What makes you YOU? Are you happy? Are you doing what makes you happy?

When we are happy and connected with ourselves, everything in life makes more sense.

Just a simple life lesson I've learned :)