{"id":11813,"date":"2016-02-06T02:02:33","date_gmt":"2016-02-06T07:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/verastic.com\/?p=11813"},"modified":"2024-02-27T21:55:16","modified_gmt":"2016-02-06T04:05:17","slug":"11813","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/verastic.com\/site\/personal\/11813.html","title":{"rendered":"May I Urge You To Keep Believing?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t usually blog in the weekends, but I sent out an email to my Sweet Potatoes yesterday, and I was so shocked and honored at the multiple responses I received, so I thought I should share the newsletter here. By the way, thank you to everyone who emailed and texted. You are awesome! This email was sent in the moment; I did not take time to go think about it and arrange it first. Enjoy! [Also, a link to subscribe to my Sweet Potato Mail is at the end of this post].<\/p>\n

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This morning, I woke up [and before even saying my morning prayers], I reached for my phone because I was eager about an email I sent and anxious to read the reply. Well, I got the reply, and it was exactly what I did not want. So I walked into the kitchen to warm my baby’s milk, and then I broke down into more boo-hoo-hooing.<\/p>\n

I used to wonder why more people did\u00a0not follow their dreams, but now I don’t wonder that anymore. Following your dreams is hard! There’s a lot of sweat, a lot of work, a lot of heart break,\u00a0a lot of frustration, and yes, a lot of tears, too. But the people who have succeeded, they say that it is worth all the tears. So here I am, nose still red from all the blowing and cleaning, sending you an email, and urging you, too, to continue to believe – just in case you might be in a similar situation as me.<\/p>\n

\"Believe\"<\/p>\n

The truth is that nothing good comes easy. Maybe there are people who luckily and easily fall into their dream life, but I have not met such people, and I am definitely not such a person. Every successful person I have met has said that it is not easy, but that it is always worth it in\u00a0the end.<\/p>\n

I don’t know what it is you are believing in or for, but the only thing I could think of doing this morning (after crying, of course) was to send you this message and urge you to still keep believing. Even when things don’t go your way, keep believing. And when all your hard work seems null and void, keep believing. And when people you care for use their words to crush your heart in a million tiny pieces, keep believing.\u00a0And when you receive a disappointing and discouraging message, still keep believing.<\/p>\n

My hope and belief right now is that in the end, it will be all worth it, and I will look back on this morning when I cried so hard that I seriously wanted to soak my phone in hot water and\u00a0blend it through and through before passing it through the shredder,\u00a0I will laugh. I will laugh because I would wonder why I was even worried. I should have known that it would get better if I just kept believing and pressing on.<\/p>\n

Don’t stop believing. Keep pressing on. We’ll laugh at our frustrations later. Have a blessed week and month, until I write you again.<\/p>\n

Yours truly,<\/p>\n

Vera Ezimora (Chief Sweet Potato)<\/p>\n

P.S. <\/strong>If this message touched you in anyway, please share it, so that others too may be touched and may be inspired to keep believing.<\/p>\n

P.P.S.<\/strong> Don’t forget to connect with me on social media [links below]<\/p>\n

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