After watching The Secret and reading The Power, I started looking back into moments of my life where everything seemed to have evolved from my train of thought and personal feelings of what I wanted to accomplish/achieve/receive. There are several examples but there is one that really made me think ‘Hey that was from the Secret!’ Again, this was before I found out about the Secret.

When I was a junior in High School I made a doodle in my notebook while in class and I knew right when I finished it, I was inspired to turn it into a drawing. Soon enough I created a full drawing out of the little doodle. It is a drawing of people, simple stick figures with some dimensions with different colors expressing and celebrating individualism, culture backgrounds and overall the message of everyone uniting as one. I loved this drawing so much that I thought, ‘What would it look like as a painting?’

Fast forward I’m a freshman in college about ready to start a new phase in my life. During that year I seriously considered having my drawing be a painting, but there were setbacks. I wasn’t much of a painter funny enough, I didn’t have enough money to buy a canvas, paints and paint brushes and I didn’t know when I’d have the time or energy to do it. But deep down I really wanted to paint my drawing, so what I did was I envisioned my painting being hung on my wall and everyone admiring it. My own piece of artwork for everyone to see. I saw it so clearly, but school was always in the way of it. The realist in me skeptically asked, “How were you gonna get the supplies?” It didn’t matter. I knew one of these days I was gonna paint my drawing.

Fast forward another two years and I’m a junior in college, more stressed out than last year. I was taking some art courses that year, one of them was a printmaking class. So I ordered the necessary supplies and waited. Then one afternoon, I get a call at the receptionist desk at the main building of the college. She says to come over because the mail room had a package for me. In the back of my mind I thought it was unusual for them to call me about a package I was expecting anyway, but anyway I go to the receptionist desk, she notifies the mail room and tells me to go right on over. I get to the mail room and the clerk gives me this wide, thin, somewhat heavy package. I thought, ‘This is quite big for a few printing supplies.’

So I bring the package to my dorm room, open the package and inside it…was a painting canvas, with paints and brushes. I was spellbound. It didn’t even hit me right away. All I could think of was ‘This isn’t my stuff!’ But it had my last name on it and it had no return address AND there was no receipt. So it couldn’t possibly be returned with no return address or the receipts name. Thus I decided to keep it and then it HIT me! Oh my God! I can paint my drawing now!

After I graduated from college I spent two months during the summer painting my drawing with all the painting colors I received as well as the brushes and by the end of the summer it was done. My painting is now displayed in my room and once I move into my own place it will have an open space to be looked at and admired. I know now from after watching the Secret that me wanting to paint, needing the supplies and visualizing the end result made it possible for me to make my wish come true. I look at it as not just a work of art, but as a reminder that I can have, do and be anything I want. I can control what I want my life to be. All from a little doodle:)