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Changed Everything
Submitted by: Nursing Student
Chicago, ILNursing student, horse trainer, athlete.
For the last several months, my life felt as if NOTHING could go right. The only thing that I felt like I had to be thankful for was my amazing boyfriend. I just began nursing school, and I cried every day because of how hard it was and how awful my professors were. My boyfriend and I couldn’t afford gas to get to work, and there was even a few weeks when we stayed with friends because we had no place to stay…
But while we were staying with friends, one of them introduced us to The Secret. She made me read a page at about 3 am one night, and I totally put it off. She has some pretty crazy suggestions sometimes, so I read it for her own sake and then went to bed.
But for some reason I couldn’t get it off of my mind. For the next two days it was all I could think about. I was so compelled that I went out and bought the book between classes (when I REALLY should have been studying). I read it that night and my boyfriend and I watched the movie the next night.
In the movie it said to start small, so I did. I thought about this guy from high school who had always been an incredible friend to me. He probably saved my life twice, and he was currently in New York. I thought about him and visualized what it would feel like to tell him thank you for everything he’d done. The next day while on my way to class, there he was! He transferred schools the week before! I finally got to tell him how much I appreciated everything he’d done for me!
In addition to thinking about that friend, I had been thinking about school getting easier. I told myself over and over that it was easy and I enjoyed it. The day after running into him, I took an exam that I was sure I failed, but just told myself that it was easy and school was great! About a week after I first read the book, I found out I was the ONLY person in my class to pass that exam (AND I passed with an A!), and the Dean of my school changed the curriculum and it honestly got so much easier. I actually LIKE going to class now whereas just more than a week ago I was crying daily!
Thank you soooo much!!!!