What Brings You Joy?
When I was a youngster I was always drawing pictures of
models, sewing by hand or sewing machine and writing poetry.
It was what excited me into knowing at a young age I had the
creative bug. I was always looking for courses for sewing, altering clothing
that needed another life, and even took up needlepoint because I loved the
designs.
My mother one day took an interest in my drawings and showed
me how she would draw it and it was then I realized that I got it from her. She
loved to draw and wanted to sew but didn’t have time because she had six
children to raise.
Her love for fashion had me subscribing to fashion
magazines, ordering clothes and shoes, and sewing. I loved it so much that I
changed from college prep in high school to business so that I could get my
first job in a department store; I completed a school project on owning a shoe
store, and enrolled in a modeling school.
While in college I changed my major from business administration
to Fashion Merchandising. I had other hobbies still but didn’t write poetry as
much as I used to, I wasn’t drawing as much either and these were things that I
loved to do. I took it as I was getting older and my taste changed.
Fast forward 40 years and poetry has taken the forefront
while I like fashion it wasn’t my passion any longer. I love clothes but
working in retail and the crazy hours I didn’t see the balance for myself and
there was so much I still wanted to do. I don’t sew anything not even a button
back on my shirt. I shifted to collecting wines, traveling, and letting the
words flow onto paper. I recently traveled home where I was able to reconnect
with childhood friends and there was a spark lit that I had lain dormant. The woman
that loved to wear makeup, dress in the latest fashions and decorate was
awaken. The storms of life that made her put things down that she loved were
shifted.
Now when asked what brings me joy it is seeing my newborn nieces
and nephews eyes light up, it is volunteering in my community, and its being
creative again. Letting those juices flow and surrounding myself with like
minded people to encourage me to live life to the fullest.
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