I was 22 when I found a thin little book called “Letter to the Universe. ” I don’t remember the writer’s name. She was talking about how wishes come true.

This year, on my birthday, the 3rd of November, it snowed in the morning. The snowflakes were huge. My bed was under the window, and I opened my eyes and saw the snowflakes. I felt like they were falling down for me; they wanted to make me happy. So I decided to make a wish. I wanted to be with someone. I thought about what I would like in this person. I said, “I want to meet him in three days and be together forever.”

Don’t judge me. My whole life, I have always dreamed of having a happy family. My parents were divorced, trying to find happiness and love with someone else. They had sent us to our grandparents, and it was difficult to see them at all. I was thinking that I would never get married. And having kids!? I did want to have kids.

I was just a kid, but then, when I was seventeen, I was diagnosed with polycystic ovaries, which had turned into benign tumors. I cried a long time and I kept thinking that I would be happy to have two or three kids.

A few months later, my uncle gave me a book with Chinese or Japanese techniques (I don’t remember which it was right now) to heal with diet and meditation. I was 17 and scared. So, I did the meditations and kept on the diet. But the medicine I also had to take was really bad, and at 18, I was really depressed and without my parents. I needed them. After a while, they told me to go study; it would help me. I applied and was accepted to university.

Again, my parents left me with no money and old, funny clothes. I tried to find a job, but after secondary school in Bulgaria, it was hard. We graduated from secondary school at the age of 18 with no experience, no social care, no food, and no house. I was homeless and hiding in the shadows.

I saved myself. I didn’t show anyone that I was homeless; I did not ask for money. I just kept looking for a job. My mom, once a month, sent me 20 to -30 levas, which is 10 to 15 dollars. I would sometimes buy croissants with chocolate; I was throwing them piece by piece to the seagulls and just eating the chocolate from the inside. I was thinking about how happy I am when I share my food, even with birds; I love everything and everybody. After a while things got better. I found a job and a nice warm room to live in.

So, back to my birthday. Three days after I verbalized what I wanted, I met my husband. We have been together for a few years and have a son. My son was the biggest wish in my life.
It happened, but maybe I didn’t know how to wish correctly, and my relationship with his father did not work out.

After a few years, I said to my son, let’s make a wish.

We wanted to go to England. We thought there was no way, but we were happy to think how happy we would be there. After one or two years, we went there, and we still live here. Now, I have a son and two daughters.

When we were in Bulgaria, I thought it would be nice to work for the richest person in England. I do not know how it actually all came together, but I went to England to work in his warehouse.

After that, I made another wish. I said I wanted to work for the richest person in the world, and now I am working at Amazon. At the time, the richest person in the world was Jeff Bezos. The founder of Amazon!

The less fear you have, the faster your life gets better. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Also, I am sorry if my English is not good enough. It is because I did not study it at school. I am still trying to improve myself.