W A L K I N G B L I N D L Y

Photographer: Tonya Barnes

As I roll over into the New Year I must be honest. My goals haven’t changed and my struggles are the same, but I can still see great opportunity “Peeking out at me.”

Vision goes beyond physical sight. It’s what you choose to see and envision for your life that you will someday experience or be in life. We have within all of us the ability to create the life we want. We just have to believe.

It’s important to have realistic expectations to believe. If we set for ourselves too many goals at once we become a jack of all trades, and a master of none. Choose one goal at a time to accomplish. I can remember trying to accomplish four different goals at once. It was stressful, and only made it difficult for me to become successful in either. It wasn’t until I decided to focus on one goal, that I saw true progress. That goal was school. I took it easy on my other goals, and now I’ll be graduating this year. I had to see it first spiritually and then naturally.

It’s important to never give up on what you see. It’s so easy to become discouraged when you can’t physically see something, but If you want to see any goal manifest you must stay the course. School for me was a difficult task, especially my freshman year. I was a freshman Forever!!! I couldn’t see graduation day coming. I had challenges getting a babysitter for my youngest, who wasn’t in school yet. I needed more income but couldn’t work. I was running short borrowing every month. I changed my major five times and turned four years of college into six years of college, but I never quit. I believed spiritually that I would someday walk those graduation aisles and be handed my degree. Despite the years of difficulties, I kept stepping until I saw my senior year. I’m now in my final semester of college, but it wasn’t easy. Matter of fact, my school wasn’t offering all the classes I needed my senior year to graduate. I had to fight for three independent studies, and for the English department to make changes to their curriculum, just to graduate this upcoming May. I wasn’t giving up.

Life can be hard! You can find yourself sometimes walking on air and nothing stable is beneath you, but I assure you if you keep on stepping, soon what you have been reaching for, you will reach.

“Keep walking until you See!”