WINGS Community Group
This is a place firstly and foremost for Support for all Women.. Whether it be every day life issues, family or emotional support, we care and we are here to listen and support, to share the good things in life as well, to smile with each other and to give gentle encouragement and pleasant thoughts along the way.. Please feel free to ask for support and post in the...
Sitting at the Marshalls, with my time card in my hand, I started to realize where I was and what
I was finally doing.
Thoughts of " I'm not good enough to be here " started floating around my head.
As much as I tried, I could not get this thought out of my head the whole time I was sitting with my
other seven competitors.
As my race approached and I clambered up the stairs and got behind my lane, ready to race, the
thought started to disappear.
I started to look around the crowd.
I saw the officials and finally my competitors.
Seeing their faces, their concentration, their anguish, I finally glanced down my lane.
At the start and the end of this lane were two walls.
In between the two walls was water.
And in the water was my DREAM.
What came next was my realization.
A dream is based on your reality, your strengths and your weaknesses.
If my dream was above the ground then I just made the foundations to make it concrete, a reality.
" I'm here aren't I " ? - I said to myself.
I swam the race of my life.
I wasn't placed anywhere, but just to be here was my dream.
People often thought that I couldn't do it and I wouldn't do it.
So when I got here, the best feeling I had was when I figured out that " I was good enough, not only
because I made the qualifying time but mainly because I never gave up; I gave my dream a shot."
An aim, a dream, a focus; never think you have set your goals too high.
You will just have the bigger challenge of achieving it.
I was finally doing.
Thoughts of " I'm not good enough to be here " started floating around my head.
As much as I tried, I could not get this thought out of my head the whole time I was sitting with my
other seven competitors.
As my race approached and I clambered up the stairs and got behind my lane, ready to race, the
thought started to disappear.
I started to look around the crowd.
I saw the officials and finally my competitors.
Seeing their faces, their concentration, their anguish, I finally glanced down my lane.
At the start and the end of this lane were two walls.
In between the two walls was water.
And in the water was my DREAM.
What came next was my realization.
A dream is based on your reality, your strengths and your weaknesses.
If my dream was above the ground then I just made the foundations to make it concrete, a reality.
" I'm here aren't I " ? - I said to myself.
I swam the race of my life.
I wasn't placed anywhere, but just to be here was my dream.
People often thought that I couldn't do it and I wouldn't do it.
So when I got here, the best feeling I had was when I figured out that " I was good enough, not only
because I made the qualifying time but mainly because I never gave up; I gave my dream a shot."
An aim, a dream, a focus; never think you have set your goals too high.
You will just have the bigger challenge of achieving it.
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My 6mo twin DD's are EBF and just started rice cereal on the first. Everything has been going fine except this morning one of them had a diaper rash (lots of redness around her anus). I read this as one of the signs of an allergy. BUT I did just buy a different brand diaper yesterday (which they have used randomly before w/no issues). Do you think its the cereal or the diaper? Im ready to start...
When I started I believed I wouldn't get through that first year let alone be where I am now 4 years into a 6 year degree course, I am giving my dream of being a writer a shot but I have to put in the preparation time like any other athlete does. I have booked in for next year and hoping that I've passed this year's.
Thank you Barbara for reminding me of what I'm doing and how far I've come love Sharon