The hardest personal goal I set for myself was many despite my disability. I wanted to show the world that a disability doesn’t make you incapable, it makes you stronger as a person. I went on attempting to work despite my medications and effects, I fought it until I couldn’t any more. As an epileptic patient, we require more sleep than average people, and our medications can have side effects such as wanting to sleep, or mood swings. I loved my children with all my heart and had been a teacher since the age of 21 on and off. It got to a point where because I was the only teacher to thirteen students, it became overwhelming causing me to have auras, yet I pushed until I realized it was no longer safe for my students. I started over working myself, which led to stress, and eventually a heavy onset of seizures.
Now, another goal I set for myself was to do anything I put my mind to, no matter what. I was going to be known for something, yet I didn’t think that it would turn out to be as good as it did. I was expressing my emotions in a notebook that got ripped up. For some reason, it fueled the fire within me to continue to express myself, and here I am with my own website. I figured some of the things I experience in life could have an impact on others as they saw the way I pushed through whatever it was that I was going through, so I shared each moment not just here on this platform, but other social media pages as well. It showed determination, and It allowed for room for others to come and ask me the things that they wanted to, to come and ask for help, to come and ask for advice, and just someone to talk to.
Another goal I set for myself was to graduate from college, no matter what the circumstances were. Trust me, I’ve faced some challenging circumstances that I overcame through the power of God, and it didn’t stop me. I graduated college for the first time in August of 2023, which was during the process of me being a teacher, and having to provide for myself. I vowed to myself that it’s okay for things to get hard personally, as long as I continue to try. With that being said, I graduated from college for the second time with my Bachelor’s of Business Administration specializing in entrepreneurship in June of 2025. Though it took me some time, I still made it through. It’s amazing that in the start of me trying to figure out what I wanted to do with merchandise, I graduate with a degree pertaining to that.
The next and final goal for myself is to be financially stable. I don’t mean having a dollar or two, I mean making sure that the next few months are taken care of, instead of being the little kid I can be sometimes, getting things that I wanted as a child before, instead of now. The problem with today’s generation is that they don’t understand the value of money and how quickly it can be spent. Prices are rising everywhere, and income is lowering as well. With being disabled, my complete goal is when there is a will, there is a way.
- Literaturebyjessc ( Jessica Hunter )
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