The Hardest Job You'll Ever Love

Some days, Peace Corps’ tagline, “The Hardest Job You’ll Ever Love,” seems like a huge joke. Love? LOVE?!?!? What was there to love? Like, maybe, but love? But you know, it’s true. Even on the worst days being a Peace Corps Volunteer is something I was proud of, something I was glad to be doing, something I maybe even loved, just a little bit.

After much soul searching, I've decided that my journey with the hardest job I’ll ever love has come to an end. I’ve not come to his decision easily but I feel in my heart it is the right one to make.

Many factors have contributed to this decision, things that aren’t all that important to explore here. I will say that over the past 13 months I have grown in ways that will take years to fully appreciate, lost things that I may never stop grieving for and gained a perspective I will carry with me forever.

Thank you to my loyal readers, friends and family who have supported me along the way and helped make this journey one of the seminal experiences of my life.

Now it comes to the end. And how exactly end something like this? Well, let’s try a quote.

“Fare forward, travellers! not escaping from the past
Into different lives, or into any future;

You are not the same people who left that station

Or who will arrive at any terminus,”
- T.S. Eliot, The Dry Salvages