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Now I'm free..



Its like I was drowning..and  someone pulled me up to the surface...Not everyone is given a second chance...very  few are even given a first..I am grateful for my new lease on life..my second chance...I'm scared, but a good kind of scared..I'm apprehensive, yet grateful...

 Apprehension that stems from being thrown into something new and having to deal with it all by yourself..but the good part comes in when you see that you are able to deal with it..that you DO have the intellect you believed you did...that the person who told you you were useless was wrong, and you were right...

Gratitude that comes from knowing that you dodged a bullet..that it could have been much worse..gratitude from knowing that there are people standing by you..Strength for me comes from mom and dad, their faith in me has never wavered, and for that I will be forever grateful. My rocks are my girls...they've picked me up before I fell, and held onto to me till they knew I wouldn't anymore.....As for my faith in myself, well, that's been reaffirmed by the confidence that my friends and colleagues have shown in me..its gratifying and overwhelming to once again be treated like an intellectual, to be given credit for having a personality..to not be given to believe that there is only so much I am capable of..to be told that the sky is the limit, and to be allowed to believe it.

I know that this time too shall pass..after all, there's always light at the end of the tunnel , right? It is karma that has brought me here, and it is karma that shall take me forward from here... Many have not got and will not get this chance to re-live what they want to, and to redefine themselves according to their terms...I have..

I was bound so tight in restraints, chained to a rock, and thrown into the sea, then someone cut me loose...and now I'm free...

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Ravi Easwaran said…
Quote Many have not got and will not get this chance to re-live what they want to, and to redefine themselves according to their terms...I have..Unquote

And so give your best shot at generating appropriate karma (politically correct words )
January 13, 2012 at 11:42 AM
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