It's quite strange, how one day you open your eyes and really see what is going on around you and realize that your motions and your choices have a huge ripple affect on everything around you. For the longest time now I really believed that my next purpose in life was to pause my career to have a child. Maybe it is, I still would welcome the experience, and some days pine for it..but I am starting to realize there are other things possibly more important right now. I may not have my own daughter or younger sister by birth, but I have 3 young woman in my family who seem to be looking for something from me. Whether guidance, or validation or just someone to talk to about this crazy experience called life...it suddenly seems that I have been called on to be there to help them get to the next stage in their lives. My 2 nieces and younger sister-in-law..all in their early 20s, all in very different circumstances, have challenged me to share what I have learned and to share their expe...