Exploring Dilemmas: Dreams and Routine

Do you give up normality to pursue your dream or give up your dream to pursue normality?

This time two years ago, I wanted to become a teacher. I liked the idea of working with young people, making a ‘difference’ and inspiring kids to pursue a subject that I love.

Sure, I’d dabbled with writing before — I’d interned with an expat magazine in Beijing and partly wrote my university faculty’s marketing pamphlet — but I’d never taken it seriously or even considered the idea that it could be an option. Not to mention the concern around my…