The Start of My Purpose
I was lost. I was completely lost and without any place, person or thing to help me heal. I lost my mother, my brothers and my father all in the blink of an eye. No! Please don’t feel sorry for me. I have already come through that storm. I had to move forward to embark on a new journey, a journey without my family. This journey has been dark at times and I have been unsure a lot of times, but I had to do this, I had to find out for myself if living without them was worth living. I knew it had to be because they prepared me for the days ahead.
I created One Talk because during the phase of grief I needed to hear someone, anyone tell me that I could make it, but the voice never came. At least not in the way i hoped it would come. I spent days, months and even years trying to understand who I would be without my family. How do I tell people my story without my mother. My mother was the BEST storyteller when it came to how my siblings and I were when we were little. She had a way with words. Oh and her laugh, it was contagious.
One Talk is all it took to remind me that I still have purpose living inside of me so, in turn I wanted and needed to helped those who felt that life was over. After their first breakup, after losing someone close, after falling on their face, after the mistakes they made in life, after losing it all, after wanting to give up....and before truly giving up I needed to reach those people in that dark place. So many people are hurt and too prideful to ask for someone to just sit with them. We call our lives private, but will post, tweet, share and dialog our true emotions to the world with few people being able to know whether it’s real or fake. We live in a world that where we are suppose to be able to figure things out, even when we feel that all options are have been exhausted. I am here to say you don’t have to tell me your deepest secrets. I am not here to deep into your past, to predict your future. I want to offer comfort to those who are in need of encouragement.You can build a great life with the things and people you have in your life. You don't have to start over completely, you can use the things you have already, it will take courage, but you can do it!
