Life’s Journey

Life’s journey can be interesting and sometimes and challenging. You are walking down your path that you have selected. Sometimes the walk can be painful and long. You wonder to yourself, will this pain ever end? But it is important to keep going. Life is always evolving and changing. Some paths you take are not chosen by you, but you are forced to travel. Once that path has ended, a new one is presented and once again it is a required one. As you move through life, there are certainly many lessons to be learned. Lessons that help you deal with many of life’s challenges. Most of us start out in life with hope and so much promise for the future. We set our goals and plan our path. As I have found reaching for that goal, you may find something else that may intrigue you ... so go ahead go for it. Reach for the stars because you may just catch one of them ...

My journey at times has seemed difficult. I was born to parents who didn’t know what they wanted or needed. So my parents had three children very quickly. After six years of marriage, it ended. They went their separate ways—we went with our mother. My father kept in contact for several years; however, when my mother remarried he decided that his children didn’t need him any more. I was twelve years old standing on the curb after my father dropped me off at my mom’s house, watching him leave me and walking out my life. I must say I felt abandoned, how he could he leave me and what did he mean when he said I didn’t need him anymore? I cried for a long time. Life moved on but I always had the hole in my heart.

Life wasn’t good to me during those years, I felt like my mother hated me because I looked like my father. During my senior year of high school, I met a young man who treated me like a queen and I was in love for the very first time. He took me to my senior prom and he proposed. I said yes! I graduated from high school and started working at the local textile mill. I had been a virgin and one night I decided at eighteen that I was ready to make love with the man that I loved. That night I became pregnant with our son. Soon we married and life was good. I had many complications during my pregnancy that put a strain on our relationship. At eight months, I delivered our first son a month early, eight pounds, we were overjoyed being blessed with such a beautiful son.