Becoming Unstuck
- Rosetta Mandisa
- Jul 27, 2019
- 2 min read
Reading an article today that was poised to encourage women. the writer stated that she feels that if more women weren’t crippled by fear but had the courage and audacity to pursue their dreams or believed in themselves they could change the world. While the writer made some great points about women being passionate and driven beings who could accomplish anything they put their minds to, that initial line about courage, audacity and fear made me pause.
I volunteer with a service organization in my community, Soroptimist International of Tampa, that focuses on improving the lives of women and girls. During the ten or so years I have been apart of this organization I have met and spent time with many women and girls. These women and girls have come from all walks of life and socio-economic status. I have learned and grown so much by simply being in their presence. I am grateful for the opportunity because it opens my eyes and my thoughts to life outside my own experiences.
I have learned and personally believe that women are fearless beings. Women are intelligent, driven, courageous, passionate and best of all, loving. All of these things are what makes us great thinkers, business owners, contributors to our communities, mothers, wives, partners and friends. Women have to endure, change, grow and overcome. We are strong and resilient.
In response to that article, I would like to respectfully disagree. I do not believe that women give up on their dreams out of fear or lack of courage. In my experience, and I think it happens for many women, circumstances and situations change our dreams but I don’t believe we lose or give up on them. As life happens, many of our dreams take on a different trajectory. Over time and through experience we find that one thing that has meaning to us. Often that may not happen until our children are out of the house, we’ve finally completed that degree, or overcome a hardship. We come into the plan God has for our lives at the moment we are supposed to.
We have the courage and the audacity. Often what we lack to reach our dreams is resources, guidance or financial means. All of those things take time. As long as we are chipping away at it every day, asking the questions and gaining the experience, our dreams will begin to take shape and become a reality. I want to take this opportunity to tell any woman who is fighting for her dreams, “I know it may be hard and sometimes it seems as if the challenges never stop coming but I believe in you! You can and you will. You were made to win!”
Just a thought…:)
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