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Strength
This
year has been difficult for me. I have gone through several mental health
crises that have made it difficult for me to be thankful about anything. I was
hospitalized in October after a traumatic event and being in a mixed episode
for bipolar disorder. It was a 24-hour suicide watch. Yet, these things have
strengthened me, and that is what I am grateful for. I am grateful for the
strength I have gained this year through everything that has happened to me.
Many
of us do not think we are strong. Many of us do not think we are strong enough.
As someone with PTSD, anxiety, and bipolar disorder, I fall prey to thinking
this copious amounts of time. I am a survivor of these things that have
happened to me this year. I am a survivor because of my strength, my
willingness to fight through the pain and still go after what I want. I have
become more compassionate and understanding. I was already these things, but
continuously building strength without letting the world harden you magnifies these
qualities of mine each time I have nothing left but strength I have to grasp on
to. After all, when there is nothing left, strength is all you can grab to
survive. It may be merely surviving, but strength will soon help you live.
As
a marketer for Southern Siding, this job constantly reminds me that I am strong
because it is a goal-oriented job. My job seems so simple on the surface, but
it is unlike retail or working in food service. It’s a job that requires fight
and determination. It’s a job that requires you to read Dale Carnegie’s book, How to Win Friends & Influence People. It’s
a job that empowers me, it’s a job that reminds me what I have in life, and
it’s a job that pushes me toward the future.
You
would think writing would do this for me—and to a certain extent it does. However,
my passion for ballet, another love of my life, does instill confidence in me,
because, for me, ballet is MUCH harder than writing. I know I am a good writer.
I don’t need to be told that. Of course I can always improve. That’s what I
strive to do with each story I write. I want each book I write to be better
than the last. Yet, with ballet, you continually learn new things, you continually
learn new exercises. When you grasp these things, when you can get an exercise
that was so difficult at first, you are filled with a sense of pride,
confidence, and strength. My job as a marketer does the same for me. Writing is
so subjective. Some will hate your work. Others won’t. But ballet and my job
are objective.
Thus,
I am grateful for my strength pushing me through life.
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Amber Skye Forbes is a dancing writer who goes through life
creating words with the tips of her toes. She dances ballet and writes for
teens. As both a dancer and writer, she has gained enough confidence to go out
into the world and instill this confidence in others. She loves her job as a
marketer for Southern Siding and has high expectations for her future in this
company. She lives in Augusta, GA, where she attends an online college to make
her life more flexible. Besides writing, dancing, reading, and working, she
loves her fiance, fashion, make-up, video games, her family, cat, and
compassion.
Website: AmberSkyeForbes
Facebook Page: AmberSkyeForbes
Twitter: AmberSkyeForbes
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What an inspiring post. Thank you for putting yourself out there to help others. And I'll say a prayer for you over the holidays. Stay strong.
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