Satisfying My Soul

Most people in life want monetary or materialistic things, I, however, want to satisfy my mind, spirit, and heart. Of course, I want the typical American dream of a home, car, and wealth, but I also want to be happy in the ways I achieve those things. I want to help people who are struggling as I have experienced the struggle myself. When I die, I want to be remembered as a superwoman who has always ground for her loved ones and for people who I barely knew out of the goodness of my heart. I want to be remembered such as Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and Malcolm X. I want to be the black face of the disabled world. 

Black lives matter and a lot of people who are deaf have told me that they wish they had more people that looked like them. Whether it be an interpreter, a speech therapist, or an advocate for them to get equal rights in job opportunities. Knowing that I possess melanin, I want to utilize it to the fullest extent and I want people to feel comfortable with me. I have always been personable and I aim to get better at doing so with all types of people. Currently, I know more about the deaf and hard of hearing community more than other disabled communities, but I love to learn and I plan on fulfilling my heart by self-educating myself constantly throughout my life. I plan on being an entrepreneur in many ways and giving my children a head start in life by exposing them to the difficulties other people face on a day to day basis. I will teach them the importance of learning, loving, and giving and hope that they become successful young men who also continue that onto future generations to come.

I know that I don't have life figured out and that I may not even be certain that anything I say I want to do now will be what I want to do in the future, and that's okay. However, I am already proud of the steps I am making towards getting there. Throughout this first semester being back in college, I have been homeless, pregnant, battling whether or not I want a divorce, and receiving straight A's. I have also FINALLY, conquered homelessness as I have just received great news that I got accepted into a low-income apartment on the same street I lived on when my homelessness began! Wow, how life came around full circle. One day, I hope that I write a book and direct a movie on my life because it is certainly one I aim to share with others in order to inspire. Recently, I have already begun that process by partaking in an interview the homeless shelter initiated for their website and shared my story on my journey of life as a homeless mother. Eventually, that footage can be apart of the movie people watch to remember me by. I also hope to be so wealthy, that I can one day give out scholarships for other individuals with powerful stories for helping them end their homeless journies or helping them go through college. Everyone deserves a chance to thrive and I want to be that unselfish person to help them get there.