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Submitted by: Ioana - Maria
Romania19 year old, finding my way back to my amazing life.
Thank you, Mrs. Byrne. Thank you, The Secret Team. Thank you, reader, for giving me the chance to make your life better.
I’ve always seen myself as a grateful person, that was until my life collapsed, about a year ago.
The first time I took notice of The Secret was in 2010. And since then everything has been working out great for me. Like amazingly great.
I have been a straight A student. I only had A’s from my first day of school to my senior year. I always imagined how I will I finish my high school with maximum grades and so I did. I also imagined how will I look in my amazing black dress at my senior prom (I was a bit chubby at the time, I had 170 cm and 58 kg, but I took on a strict diet for a month or two with some suspicious diet pills) and so I looked fabulous and everybody complimented me on my looks. I imagined how I will get the highest score at my BAC (equivalent in my country for the american SAT, I believe) and of course I did. Maximum grade. 10 of 10.
And I have never, ever thought of thanking the Universe and being grateful for my amazing accomplishments. I knew The Secret and it’s principles, but somehow I got lost in the process.
And so, I lost it all.
I had failed my admission exam to the University of Medicine and Pharmacy, for which I had studied a lot, of course. For half a year I didn’t know what I did wrong. I expected a high score and I was picturing myself on the verge of becoming a successful surgeon. It was a writing mistake, as I found out later, my transcription from the draft to the exam paper had a huge discrepancy, probably because I was so sure of my success that I didn’t think to check it twice.
And so, I was left back at home for an entire year, as all my former colleagues had been accepted to their universities.
I started smoking heavily, had depression and with that, antidepressant pills became a part of my daily life.
Until one day I came across The Secret. Again.
And since I had nothing to lose I started practicing it. I watched the movie and I bought The Magic and The Power and later this year, Hero. And so I was sitting in my room, day in day out, reading the books, crying in silence, amazed by all those truths written there. And I found myself being grateful again, for all the things I had.
And little by little my life started to change. I left depression behind, and with that, the pills. I had also quit smoking. I joined a gym and hired a trainer to help me as I decided to go into bodybuilding. In the last half a year, I lost 8 kg of fat, put on 4 kg of muscle and I am finally able to say that I am a fit person. No more strict diets. No more diet pills. Just healthy living. I have started studying again, with more faith, for my admission exam and I have met the most amazing anatomy teacher I could ever have. And of course I have only maximum scores in my anatomy tests. It couldn’t be any different, with the Universe on my side, could it? I am looking forward for my admission exam at the end of July.
It seems that with the power of gratitude my life is back on track again. Now that I know what I did wrong, I am ready for bigger, more important goals and I don’t see last year’s experience like a failure anymore, but more as a way in which the Universe let me know that I’m not feeling the right things.
And maybe, just maybe, it has something else prepared for me this year. A lottery win (this was the only thing I thought about back in 2010 when I read The Secret for the first time), at the right moment, perhaps. I always wanted to have an apartment of my own and to buy my parents a house in our city to thank them for all the things they have done for me in the last year. Or maybe, just maybe, I was brought to this moment, writing my story here so it could become a featured story and inspire people all around the world.
My accomplishment might seem a small thing, compared to other’s attractions using the Law, but this has made me so happy, so grateful that I fell in love with my life, with myself. Of course you know of what kind of love I’m talking about if you have seen The Secret movie and watched Mr. Bob Proctor kissing his hand in gratitude for his body.
Isn’t this what we all want? Finding the truth. The way to happiness. The Secret to life.
As an amazing quote from my favorite writer says:
“May the joy be with you”