Inspiration

Sometimes you come to a desert in your life. Everything seems dry and desolate, like you've come to the end of all you planned and dreamed for. Sometimes you doubt your abilities to get yourself out of the rut you seem to have fallen into. Times like these can be some of the hardest in your life, because it feels like being trapped in an invisible prison, one that other's can't see, but one as real as if there were actual stone walls and iron bars surrounding your heart. It can seem that there is no way to free yourself. But there is always a way.
I, Olivia Ann Wells, solemnly declare that I will thrust myself out of the rut through sheer determination and hard work. I'm done with being lazy and making excuses. I will succeed and there is no one on this earth that can stop me from achieving greatness as a writer.
Sometimes you just need to drink from the cool waters of inspiration, to quench your thirst in the desert. I've found it before in the pages of an excellent book, or through music or another's passion.
But if you don't have the determination to back it up, those things will get you nowhere. You have to have your own passion, and see your own potential for excellence. Sometimes, it takes an extra special person to lead you to what you had forgotten was there. A person who sees you deeper than you can see yourself, and who loves you all the more because of it. That's what I needed.
So now, I'm freshly determined to reach my dreams. I know that I was not meant to lead a commonplace life. So I'm going to start thinking, breathing, dreaming, working, and loving extraordinary. I am not content to settle for anything less than I know I can be.
I seal this declaration in the sacred name of Jesus Christ, Amen.