I feel
appreciated.
There are a few
things that I keep close to my chest in life: my family, my beliefs, my goals
and my finances. While I talk about them sometimes, I don't openly discuss them
at length because I simply believe that the things that you hold near and dear
to your heart should be protected at all times. I believe that given the chance,
someone will come along and wish to destroy all that you have simply because
they either want it or they envy you for having something they don't.
Those are just the
facts of life.
But sometimes you
run into people that wish genuinely and wholeheartedly nothing but the best for
you. They wish for nothing but the best and they will always want you to succeed
at anything you put your honest effort into. You either meet these people before
the thoughts are even formulated, when they're just in their infancy, when
you're struggling to figure out the next step or when you have everything you
need to win except that voice of encouragement; they are always right on time.
That's where Zoe
of Dear Queens comes into play.
I couldn't tell
you the exact day in which I knew Zoe was going to be my equal in this blogging
world, but I knew it pretty early on. Before I even had a single conversation
with her, I read up and through her blog. There were some posts I lingered on
and some I had to stop reading for awhile because they hit so close to home; but
by the end of it all, I just knew. What was even more evident of the fact is
that she welcomed my invitation for friendship with an open heart.
What most people
seem to not realize about me is that I'm faith driven. That means that there is
nothing that I do that I don't contribute to the Lord's blessings. So when I
win, it's because of him; when I lose, it's because he wanted me to learn
something. It all starts and ends with him and most people these days seem to
get away from that notion. The main reason that love and always support Zoe's
blog Dear Queens is because that's what
she personifies; the lessons she's received from God.
When I write here
on this blog about stories that have happened to me in the past, it's with the
intention to educate others of my mistakes as well. With a few tweaks here and
there between the two blogs on the things we choose to post, for the most part
we are one in the same. We both write stories about how the good Lord has
blessed us with wisdom, pain, triumph, sadness and ultimately he's bringing us
into our purpose through these trials and tribulations.
Another thing that
people didn't know about me is that I struggled with said purpose over the past
few months. I'm not going to say what exactly it was that triggered it, but just
know it affected my level of self appreciation for what I was doing here on the
blog. For awhile I planned to just walk away and quit and just find something
else to put my time into. I sat and talked to myself and figured out exactly
what it was I wanted to do. After realizing that people actually read my posts
for the purpose that I wanted them to, (and that's to actually help them with
their lives), I decided to take an extended break.
(Support her shop here: Dear Queens Shop)
Of course when I
told Zoe she was all for it, she was still all for it after I told her the
amount of time I was shooting for; (even after she got done whiffing at me lol).
Even more recently when I was putting out my year end information about the blog
and was being incredibly hard on myself for not reaching the goals that I wanted
to do, she was still there supporting, like she always did. She reminded me that
purpose isn't about the numbers, but about what I took from the work that I did.
Well even after
all of that, it wasn't until a simple tweet linking back to
@GlamSavvy's post
5 Lessons On Purpose vs. Popularity on twitter that I realized just how
special Zoe is to me. We all need that one person who we can come to and bounce
that idea off, even if it's crazy as all outdoors, and they'll talk to you about
it and either tell you how foolish it sounds or how awesome it sounds. But at
the end of that idea, they'll support you whatever way you decide to go with it.
We also need that one person who we can express our frustrations to even when we
think we're being a burden and we don't want to bother anyone.
We all need that
one friend and in this thing that we call blogging, Zoe is that friend for me.
I could go on and
on about how awesome Zoe is and all of the things that she does to keep that
creative and spiritual connection that I have within my writing style together.
I'm usually the big brother when it comes to blogging sometimes because a lot of
people ask me what they should do or what I think. I have zero problems with
that because I believe that my thing is to be supportive and to help people find
ways to their goals. But sometimes I also need that ear to bend and that
wonderful advice, and since I'm so fickle and I know so much about stuff, I need
someone that knows more about the things that I know. Or to simply to look at
things from a different angle because they get where I'm trying to go and where
it's coming from.
That person is
Zoe, creator of the wonderful Dear Queens,
winner of Best Faith Blog and Best New Blog and overall outstanding human. I just wanted to let you guys in on
one of the people that supports this blog and me the most. And it feels damned
good to be appreciated by someone who understands my purpose.
I'm proud to call
her, sister.
Follow her on Social Media:
Twitter: @zDearQueens
Instagram: z.DearQueens
Facebook: Dear Queens
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