Dreams: A Gift of Life

       Pain is something much too familiar in my life. It seems that for every step that I take to move forward, there are obstacles that are set before me and pushes my efforts back by two steps.  Yet, there  is such a driving force in me to succeed against all odds. Who knows, I may wind up trying until the day that I die and never experience a life without pain or struggle. But the key thing is that I keep trying and never quite. That alone makes my life and every pain and burden that I bear well  worth the effort.

          I have dreams that I am working to achieve. My greatest dream is one shared by people all over the world…. To own my own home. A place that my children can always come back to when life gets hard for them. A safe haven for all my family and friends.  It would be a place filled with so much love that it would be felt as you walk through the door.  I need a home. Not just for my children and those that I love, but for myself as well. I have always lived in someone else’s home.  Always having to compromise my beliefs and lifestyles in order to keep the peace. Always living in a place where all you feel is so much tension and insecurity with each walk through the door. Always living in a place where abuse has become, not just a normal… but an expectation.

         But I will never give up. I will continue to work towards my dreams until my time here is over.   Obstacles are meant to be challenged  as they are lessons in life. To the world… I am an unknown, unimportant… a nobody.   But in this life I have been given- I am a hero in my children’s  eyes. I am their strength, their love, their life. I am loved by all my family and friends who know me. I matter and I am important to so many people in my life. These are the things that make me so very blessed and richer in ways that most of the world’s wealthiest people will never know.  And it is for these very same reasons that I will never give up trying.