I hoped I’d feel differently after a good nights sleep. Alas, I’m still quite sad, today. I just can’t imagine not teaching. Think of the thing you love to do most in the world (playing music, going to movies, spending time with your child) and imagine that can’t do that thing for an entire year … get the feeling?
I guess I could teach somewhere else. I so love my students and program at MCC; it would be hard to put the same energy and love into building a similar thing for another school. The MCC students are what make this so dang hard for me. They’re so determined and hard-working. They’re happy, excited and passionate about their work and being in the classroom. They inspire me to work harder to teach them more. Big bad bummer.
Perhaps I just hate change and the coming year will be wonderful. Who knows? Here comes the back and the front of the hand again. The great part about change is new opportunity and new learning. The bad thing is that you lose whatever you had before the change. The birth of something new requires the death of something old. The irony is that I’m always encouraging the students to follow their passion and try new things. I understand their trepidation and resistance more the last few months.
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