Dear Taleena,
Opportunities will come before you, accept the challenge instead of avoiding a collision. Let ambition flow through your veins with every step. In elementary school, you will have an assignment where you will choose a business venture. Your creative mind will choose to be a banner designer where you will create advertisements for the local classroom businesses. Having a rapport with your fellow classmates will allow you to become the most successful business with recurrence. Your reasonable prices will be relatable as these businesses are just starting up and they need advertisements for their goods and services. Constant smiles and banter will catch the attention of shoppers. Personalize the banners for them to sparkle and shine in the elements of laughter, chaos and townsfolk activities. Maintain this enthusiasm through all of your encounters and don’t let any opportunities pass you by. Build an enterprise and pass through the generations that hard work and dedication will lead you to the destination you deserve and desire.
Sincerely,
The one who endured through the chaos and turmoil to create a path for success and independence.

My worn hands feather away the curtain of fog, a forgotten smile hides behind the despair left within me after I was released from the hold of my abusive partner. Invisible scars cover my soul from years of turmoil. My body defeated with exhaustion takes one last step before collapsing into a field of fireflies. A sense of relief pervades my subconscious as I slip into a dream. My past of havoc vanishes into the shadows behind me, presenting a trail of glimmering hope ahead of me. The trail is lined with sparkles of suppressed dreams, frozen ambitions, lost relationships and security. The sky opens above me reflecting a shining glow of my concealed spirit.

Distant chatter awakens me as I see a hand reach down to raise me up. I am surrounded by those that watched my uninhibited spirit confiscated by the mercy of my abuser’s control. A smile unearths from the depth of my heart. I am lifted up as sparkles drop off of my new spirit into the shadow of my past molded into the ground beneath my feet. Wherever I may go, my weightless footprints filled with sparkle and shine replaces the despaired memories fading into my past.