Did You Start At The Top or At The Right Place?
You will need this when Failure visits and Success tests you

“I am not contributing anymore to her lifestyle,” Lorna protested in the family meeting with her three cousins at her home. Her eyes were on Jemma, across from her around the rectangular table in the breakfast nook in her kitchen.
“I will pay you back when I get my big break,” Jemma pleads.
“You have been waiting for your big break for more than thirty years!” Lorna screamed in anger.
Kelly and Denise, who sandwiched her, both took her hands, to calm the anger that was reeling from the many years they had been sacrificing themselves and their families to help Jemma. Whose big break was around the corner that kept eluding her at every turn.
Silence allows reality and the truth to explode in hearts, minds, souls, actions, choices, decisions, whys, how, when, needs, wants, etc.
Kelly and Denise released their hold on Lorna’s hand, as their eyes slowly turned to Jemma.
Awareness injected memories that anchor reality as they slide back more than thirty years to the many times, they deny themselves of the basics to help their cousin. That continued for years while she waited for her big break.
“I got this,” Kelly assured covered in anger. “All of us started from the bottom with nothing. We fight, make sacrifices, deny ourselves of the pleasures of life with the hope of a better future. . .” she paused as the pain became unbearable.
Denise grabbed control, “We started small because that’s the sensible and only route available to us. You refused to start from the bottom because you didn’t want the hard work, sacrifices, pain, struggles, lessons, etc. that live there. Unaware, that’s where your root lies, and your hard work will strengthen and anchor you, so when or if you fall, you have strength and wisdom from lessons learned to help you to restart.”
Silence roared and Jemma swayed her head, then nonchalantly said, pointing at Lorna, “So you are joining her and refusing to help me!”
Shock paralyzed them briefly and Denise said after releasing shock, “We agree with her. For years we supported you while you waited for your big break. No one starts at the top.”
“Damn right,” Lorna agrees. “You have wasted more than thirty years of your life, waiting for the impossible. Girl, don’t you know that when you start at the top, there is only one route and it’s down.”
“With no life lessons and strength to learn from or hold on to when you are falling,” Kelly adds.
Denise scored a home run, “are you aware that if you get your big break now, you have no life lessons or experiences to keep it flowing?”
Silence maintained its presence as all four ladies absorbed what was said.
Then Jemma asked, “You are saying my big break will break me because I have nothing to maintain my success because I started from the top?”
“Why the hell do you think that sensible people have no problem starting small?” Kelly educated. “As you grow, you gain strength while learning from life, mistakes, and everything else!”
“Plus, you will need something to fight with when failure visits and success tests you,” Lorna adds.
“So, if I had started small like all of you, I would have achieved my dream already like you have?” Jemma asked with understanding, as regret extended through her body, rising to the surface, changing her facial expression to someone in pain.
“Well,” Denise suggested. “You are still alive; you can still start!”
I know many humans wasted their youth still waiting for their ‘BIG BREAK.’ There are no life lessons in their ‘Big Break,’ because many finally get it and cannot maintain it. Starting small is the most sensible way to begin because life lessons will strengthen and guide you as you grow, which you will need when failure visits and success tests you.
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