DIAMOND IN THE ROUGH.
There comes a time in your life when you have to make a decision; you have to decide who you are going to be and what you are going to sacrifice.
I’m at that place now.
I am tired of being helpless and playing the victim or the damsel in distress. It’s not cute and its not healthy.
I want to be a force, a powerful woman with purpose and direction. I have a lot I need to prove and at first I thought I wanted to prove it to my family, my colleagues and everyone else but that’s not the case anymore.
I need to prove to myself that I can do the things that I thought I couldn’t do.
I’m sacrificing time with my children, I’m losing sleep, I’m frustrated on many days and sometimes I feel as if I’m not getting anywhere…
But I am.
I can’t see the entire staircase but the one step I see, is the one step I’ll take.
And every single day of my life, I’ll continue to take one step until I reach the top.
It’s a very difficult place to be in when you’re a young professional and you’re a mother and you’re trying to be everything else as well. It really is a taxing place that can take a lot out of you.
But it is also a beautiful place of learning and growing and finding out what you’re capable of.
It’s a place when you can be smoothed out by everything that tries to break you.
Every morning when I walk (or run) up and down the corridors of my work place, I tend to give myself a pep talk, “ You can do this. You are stronger than what you think, than what they think. Keep going”
I don’t just say that to myself because of work; I say that to myself to remind me that I have overcome so much and I can still reach the peak of this mountain that stands before.
We will get to where we need to be. I promise you that. All you need is a lot of patience, more determination and the ability to grind your teeth without losing it.
Don’t give up.
You’re a diamond and every hard and painful experience you go through is simply there to make you all shiny and smooth.
