“You can….”
When I woke up this morning and saw this post in my “on this day” highlights”, I was instantly overcome with emotions. I flashed back in time to three young women, confidently unsure of themselves, yet eager to make a difference in the lives of others. And even when we didn’t have much from society’s standpoint, we were wealthy in our dreams, ambitions, and our desire to GIVE. To give something that we didn’t even have, but knew somehow, together, we could do anything.
Looking back on those days, I realize that our naivety to what we were doing was our best asset. Like the little boy who dresses up every day in his superhero costume, his cape made from a sheet, or some old blanket his mum gave him and shooed him away to play with one day. And every day thereafter he ties that sheet around his neck and defends the world, because after all that’s what a superhero does right, and no one’s ever told him any different?
We believed in the magic of the world, unicorns ( laughs), and that if we wanted to do something bad enough, we could because no wasn’t an option. And one day that dream became a reality, and the Diva Dolls were born. In our little city, we would be the change. I’d like to think that we made a difference in someone’s life during that time, but what’s most important to me is that on this day, when I needed it the most, I was reminded that I CAN, be anything and do anything.
I needed that reminder, because like the little boy who donned his superhero cape every morning with intentions to “save the world”, until one day someone tells him that he can’t save the world because he’s not really a superhero, or he grows up, and forgets to play, to dream, and he loses his naivety. I too wake up every morning with intentions to “save the world…namely myself”, and to be honest sometimes I’m a little discouraged by life. But today, I realized it’s because I’ve lost that naivety. I’m not saying don’t grow up and be a bobblehead all your life, but what I am saying is….don’t be afraid of not KNOWING how you’re going to accomplish your dreams, the how’s, and who’s will come. The power in the not knowing is that you don’t feel the defeat, you just keep pushing until you make it happen. You Can.
~Confessions of a Diva Doll
Gigi Powers
Pretty Is A Lifestyle 