Dear Diary, My passion is never completely discovered.
I have always felt there is something more to do to find out what it is.
Even though I can't exactly put my finger on the pulse of it... I always feel I am doing what I am supposed to... right now.
There is a peacefulness that has settled over me.
In my lifetime, tragic events that should have been challenging have propelled me on many paths. Also, I was not given a sense of career direction by my parents in my high school years. They let me make my decisions. I liked this at the time, but I was adrift in the sea of life without a mentor or career path.
In my grade school years, I loved horses, I dreamed how life would be if I could be in a boarding school in New England where I could learn to ride horses. I saw this in an ad in the back of McCall's Magazine. It seemed so glamorous!
My parents would have never spent the money for this dream... so I never asked.
We moved to a 33 acre farm and Dad bought me a wild yearling filly when I was in 8th grade. True...he bought her, but the rest was up to me. I had to train her myself(learned from a library book), raise the money for a saddle(my first bank loan), buy tack, feed, pay blacksmith and vet bills.
I worked long hours every day to earn money by cleaning dorm rooms at the local university for students, renting stalls and pasture, riding lessons(as I learned, I taught others)and selling baled hay from the pasture. Life was sweet I thought.
Finally, everything was perfect in my senior year. I had been working toward my horse farm career for four years investing my own money.
By April 4th, a tornado came and wiped it all away. No more house, furniture, cars, trees, barns, horses(they turned up safe a mile away), horse trailer, clothes, shoes, all the keepsakes from my childhood...my daily life on the farm disappeared in a matter of seconds.
Shaken and beat up we moved to one room (4 of us)in the Holiday Inn until FEMA brought us a trailer a month later. It was devastating that everything was gone before prom and graduation.
I quickly learned I could start over from nothing. All I had after the night of the tornado were just the clothes on my back. Everything I had worked for had disappeared like dust in the wind.
This one event formed who I am today. I know I can reinvent myself at any time.
Since the devastating tornado, I have had many passions, many lives. Starting over from nothing... time after time.
Five and a half years ago, I reinvented myself from a professional artist to a Realtor. I went into this real estate career with the conviction that failure is not an option.
There has never been a moment that I have wanted to bail out and get another job. This is my passion right now and I just finished getting my broker's license. It was so hard for me to study since I am older, but I wanted it like nothing else.
I plan to be around for a long time and events can transform who I am and what I want. Thoughts become my reality. I choose to make them good .
Life is an amazing adventure I wouldn't want to miss a moment wishing for things that could have happened... but didn't.
Lizette Fitzpatrick- Principal Broker at Lizette Realty.
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