Giving a little encouragement goes a long way
More than anything this post shows how opportunity and education can transform, and free, someone’s life from what it was and what they think it will always be. I’ve been reading Sierra’s posts for some time now and her latest shows how one person simply believing that you could, that you are capable can do so much. So maybe we all should do that more often. Show that we trust someone in what they can do and what they can be if they wish.
“There’s more than one way to write,” Bill answered. “You could go to grad school. You could become a professor.” My eyes widened. I could become a professor? The borders of my world seemed to explode, running out in all directions like shockwaves from an earthquake. I could go to grad school? I felt like I’d just been told that I could go to the moon. I recalled the sign I had seen the previous year: “From Homeless to Harvard.” I could be that girl who overcame, who rejected the life laid out before her and forged a new one. I could make something of myself. Bill thought I could be that girl.
There be Dragons
Someone just reminded me of this quote. It’s very true in some ways.
Fairy Tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten. – GK Chesterton
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