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It Felt Impossible….
Submitted by: Viktoria C
IrelandA young single mother of one, with great hopes and dreams that I know will all come to me.
I read The Secret stories everyday, they give me such a boost. Today is the day I chose to share mine, and I share it with great love and faith.. believe me nothing is impossible!.
To provide a little bit of background, I moved to Ireland 10 years ago following some one I thought was the love of my life (alas he was not), We had a beautiful little boy together and soon afterwards went our separate ways. Our breakup was by no means harmonious. I found myself a single parent in a country foreign to me. I had no family, a very small circle of acquaintances (who turned out to be bad apples), court summons with respect to maintenance and access coming through the letter box every month, a huge mortgage (for a house in extreme negative equity), reduced hours in work ( full time to 1 day week ), and solicitor bills mounting higher and higher. I raised my son on my own and every night before I read him his story, kissed his forehead and told him to dream big. I would return to my sitting room and in my solitude wonder how it I ended up here… in this impossible, lonely, unhappy life… I would thank the world for the love of my little boy and he would bring me through this… I clung to him to keep me going.
After a number of years of misery, I met purely by chance, the most beautiful friend I have ever had the fortune to meet, a customer in the shop I worked in. She gave me her number out of the blue and said we should meet for coffee. I thought at the time “sometimes strangers are the best people to talk to.” I was very insecure and of a general nervous disposition at this stage, so I didn’t ring her. Then about 6 months later I found her number in one of my old work shirts while I was doing the laundry and I took the bull by the horns and rang her, there and then, before I had a chance to convince myself not to. We met for coffee and she presented me with this book ‘The Secret’
This woman is 30 yrs my senior and the most beautiful friendship I have ever known has blossomed between us… she is me, albeit in a different skin and generation… thank you, thank you, thank you for my own angel in the darkness! After much talk and thoughts I had decided I wanted to return home to my family in England, to raise my son around the love and security of my family. However his father had legal restrictions placed on me so I could not leave the 26 counties of Ireland with my son until he was 18… ( he was 8 at the time). I had been to many courts, seen many judges and begged many politicians to help me go home… all to no avail…. but I believed and I knew that if I believed, the universe would deliver this ‘impossible’ dream.
I looked at houses near my mothers on the internet, I searched jobs, I looked into schools for my son, I wished my ex partner all the best wishes ( which was incredibly hard at first due to the circumstances until I remembered he gave me my son, and my son saved me in my darkest hours of despair. I thanked his father time and time again for my little man.
I traveled to the UK to visit my family for 5 days – what happened during this period I can only attribute to the amazing power of the universe.
During my stay I had made contact with an old friend (who was now a recruitment consultant) – we met up, had coffee and talked of the good old days. I told her without hesitation that I WOULD be moving back home soon, although had no idea how I would overcome the legal aspect. Three days into my visit she rang me and asked if I would like to interview for a job she had just been notified of – get this…. full time, great money, company car and 5 min down the road from my mothers house, and in the industry that I love! It was a management position and way above anything I had ever done before, but I said” hey why not”? I had an interview and they offered me the job!
I was delighted! Now all I had to do was convince my son’s father to let me leave Ireland. This man had not actually spoken to me in 4 years, all contact was through solicitors (much to my dislike). How was I ever going to convince him, and do so within 4 weeks, in order to move and begin work!
I returned to Ireland with a positive attitude and just rang him! He answered! Wow! He had not answered in 4 years! I spoke with him very sincerely and from the heart and asked his permission to leave and guess what? He agreed!!!! There were of course, conditions, namely that he did not want to pay maintenance, however with the new job I received a handsome salary (unlike anything I had ever received before), so I could well afford not to have maintenance anymore. The universe knew what was coming and prepared for it!
Legal documents agreeing to the new arrangement were drawn up and signed, I packed up my house and the rest, as they say, is a story waiting to be told….
Thank you thank you thank you to the universe! In my darkest hour an angel was sent to me and I have never looked back! Believe people! Believe in the biggest and best dreams and the universe WILL make the seemingly impossible, possible!!
I am now bursting with joy, hope and happiness for the future… my one piece of advice to you all, when doubt begins to creep in remember you can’t see the radio waves but you can hear the radio!