Hi Benjamin,

First, congratulations on your year away teaching. Do you have plans to go back? You sounded happy doing that.

Second, leaving school and a job may be weighing too heavily on you if you feel you failed somehow. It is ok to go through these things. Find some lessons learned etc. and frame it as part of your life story.

Could it be your age or experiences have changed you, and you are going through making sense out of it? If this is so, give yourself some time to adjust. Maybe seek out others who have traveled away like that to see what they experienced, how it changed them.

Lastly, are there some suns and moons in your life? You are one. Your family? Best friend? A professor? The family friend from your childhood? Someone you can talk with to catch up. A rock in the changing world.

Big blue