Sacrifice: Sewing Your Seed
For as long as I can remember, it has been hard to make financial investments in anything. Not because I didn't want to, but the risk of my "dream" or "vision" not coming to fruition was a risk I could not take: When you have to decide between buying a $200 text book or having food for the next 2 weeks, you choose food. Yes that text book would be extremely helpful, but I will take pictures of the pages from a classmates textbook. Chances for us to sew seeds in our lives pop up all the time: It is just up to us to plant there. I know first hand how hard it can be. But it needs to be done
Recently, a situation all too similar to this presented itself. I had $400 dollars in savings. $200 for my dorm room supplies. I didn't actually need anything new, but for once, I wanted to treat myself. And the other half were for bills. A friend of mine reached out about going to the annual Conference and Career Fair that the National Association of Black Journalist host. However, between roundtrip transportation to and from DC, hotel, food, and the actual conference registration, my savings and checking would be shot dry. But I bared witness to the amount of connects and opportunities my friend received after her time at the conference the year before.
It was a no brainer: Go to the conference, meet people, get an internship, internships turn into post graduate jobs. But it wasn't that simple. Do I risk my last to POSSIBLY land something? Will those connections actually "connect" me to something?
See, that's the thing about Sewing seeds in your future: Every seed sewed is a step in the right direction. Even if the ultimate goal was not hit by then, it will be. It is hard to keep that in mind when you have other pressing matters in front of you, but never loose sight of that goal or dream or vision of yours.
Starting in the fall I will be interning for NBC Universal. I will be with CNBC's show Mad Money. AND IT'S PAID THANK SWEET BABY JESUS. My finances solved itself, and I am one step closer to working for E News! NBC Universal owns CNBC and E! Landing an internship with their parent company was a major key and it couldn't have happened without my going to DC and talking to all of those people, shoving my resume in so many faces, and reaching out to the emails from the 100's of business cards I was given.
Take that risk, sew that seed and go follow your dreams with your beautiful self!
- Sacrifice
