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The Yellow Crayon.
Submitted by: Nye' Lyn Tho
Oakland, CAI am a 32 year old African American lesbian living in Oakland California. I started my own Photography and Design business 3 years ago and I'm currently working on using my skill to help others successfully use visualization.
July 4th 2018 I decided to break-up with my girlfriend after our relationship took a huge dive. That caused me to have to move out of my apartment and live out of my photography studio for 3 weeks. It was in a warehouse with no heat so it was very cold. I then had to give up the studio. All this to say my life felt like it was hitting rock bottom. I was miserable, emotionally exhausted and ready to move back home with my father.
I knew I had to stop thinking about all of this negativity in order to get out of the funk so I started obsessing over the law of attraction talks, coming here to read stories here and listening to affirmations before sleep. Slowly I was feeling slightly more positive. I listened to this story on YouTube about this man who manifested a blue apple. I said, okay! I’m going to try manifesting something easy at first like a yellow crayon. It showed up several times.
The first time it was on a Facebook banner image for a creative group that someone suggested I join. I didn’t think it counted as I imagined it coming to me physically and magically. Like a kid hands it to me or it drops from a stroller as I walked behind it’s mother pushing it on the street.
I continued looking for it. For months. Getting more frustrated. The second time it showed up was in the office supply aisle in Safeway. I walked straight into the store and found myself standing in front of it. But again I didn’t accept it because of course I would find it there and started thinking maybe I should have chosen something more unique. The 3rd time I settled. I signed up for Michaels rewards program and not even a week later got an email for a deal on ‘All things Crayola’, I was excited. It wasn’t physical. It wasn’t super magical like it dropping in front of me like the magical feather someone had manifested in The Secret. But here it was in my inbox! I went to Michael’s and purchased my pack of crayons and taped the yellow one to my wall. I still found myself sometimes looking for the damn thing on the ground!! Slowly I stopped looking.
Two weeks ago my current girlfriend and I were at a restaurant and the waitress was taking our order and said ‘Sorry this pen doesn’t write too well, it’s some sort of Crayola pen’ . It was blue. I exclaimed, “Interesting, I’ve been trying to manifest a Crayola Crayon for a couple of months now.”. She says “maybe it’s a sign!! Do you want it?!!” I said “No thanks I’ve already manifested it”.
The very next day we go out for breakfast and we were talking about our future plans about going hiking, etc. We were sitting in these cozy couches waiting to be seated and while we were both silent and lost in our own thoughts, a child drops a yellow crayon on the ground right in front of me!! The sound it made was like a light being flicked on in my mind. I understood. Up until the waitress, I had not felt it in my heart that I already HAD the yellow crayon. I’ve always had it. But the entire time I had wanted it which makes no sense if I already had it. Not until my mind, my soul and my heart truly obtain it did I get the crayon in the manner that I visualized.
Thank You Rhonda Byrne for your works. Thank you all for sharing your stories. They’re very encouraging! On to my dream clients, studio and home.