Thought of the Day

byElishia

199 followers

Updated 10 years ago

I decided that I have had enough of the hum drum. You know that daily grind that we all face from day to day. The routine we have set up for ourselves to survive the daily goings on. As a single parent, as with many others, my life has been one event after another in the chaotic fashion possible.

My story is one of sorrow, as I know are others. I lost my home in a foreclosure, I have had automobiles repossessed, I have had to sell everything I had once held dear, just to feed the kids. I have worked hours on end, just to make enough money to pay enough on the bills to keep the utilities on. My husband left when my youngest was just a baby and took everything with him, literally, even the baby's pot. I knew I had to d something, or we would not survive.

I enrolled in nursing school. I attended class, made good grades. I literally took my children with me and set up a sort of play pen in the back of the classroom so that I could keep a watch over them. You see, I could not afford daycare. Unfortunately, after 3 and 1/2 years of school, I had to leave. My ex-husband and his antics cost me everything. I thought my world had ended, again.

The last twenty years have been barely making it, if that's what you can call it, without having the luxury of doing anything about it. My credit was shot, I had to start all over, from the bottom, with a new job. I worked long hours, relentlessly. It was manual labor that took a toll on my body and mind. I had always had high hopes and dreams of my own, but of course, when you have children, those dreams and hopes must go on the back burner for a while.

Now that my children are all grown up, it's time that I move on into those dreams. For once I would like to be able to pay the rent on time. Buy groceries when I need them, or just go out and eat on a whim.

I have returned to school,this time majoring in Business Management. I moved up in my job. I was promoted to Supervisor over the receiving department. I recently was put in a position to buy a home. A month after that, I purchased a new car. Life is okay now. There are still some good days and bad days, but everyday is a blessing.

You may think that this story is a sad one, and at one time it was. Today, I think of it as motivation. Motivation to stay the course. Motivation to hold on to your dreams. Motivation look forward to bigger and better things.

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