Thursday, May 3, 2018

How I became a true believer.


Thank you, mother. For reading to me. Before I could read. Instilling in me. The mantra, ‘I think I can. I think I can. I think I can.’ Over and over. Sounding like a tiny locomotive. Chugging. Chugging. Chugging away. Relentlessly. On a mission. The well-defined task. Of the ‘Little Engine that Could.’  Pulling a long freight train. Up a steep mountain pass. Believing. Against all odds. That it could achieve. The seemingly impossible. What bigger and mightier engines couldn’t. Mostly because of their defeatist attitudes. Some didn’t even try. They gave up. Never bothering to test the impossible. Never trying.  Except for the little engine that could. A true believer. And that’s what I wanted to be. A true believer, and more. I’ve followed that mantra. My entire life. ‘’I think I can. I think I can. I think I can.’ That’s how I’ve become. What I am. A romantic idealist. A spiritual free-thinker. A political liberal. A writer. A lover. A dreamer. Yes. Yes.  Once again. Thank you, mother. For guiding me. To the right path. So that I could become. A true believer. In myself. --Jim

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