"I'm finally free!" I say as I walk out of my classroom door. Teaching has been my entire life for five years. My eyes welled up with tears as I wrote my students a goodbye note on the whiteboard. I could not bare to look them in the eyes and tell them their beloved school wore me down. The system that was supposed to lift us all up let us all down. I could only continue this mental game for so much longer. This place forever holds a place in my heart, but it is time for me to move on to my next new dream.