JK Rowling once said, “Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.”
As the year 2011 is coming to a close, I find myself spending a lot of time reflecting on the year’s events. It is amazing to me how much a life can change in such a short amount of time. The year 2011 was a hard one for us. It was the year our lives turned upside down during a painful divorce. It was a year of change. We moved back in with my parents, I changed my major and went back to school, Logan started daycare, and we started the long journey of piecing our lives back together. It’s hard to believe it’s almost been a year already.
There have been hard years in my life, but this was definitely the most difficult. I never expected to find myself as a young single mother. I never dreamed that I would be divorced. I never knew the hardships I would have to face, but I am grateful for them. Looking back, I never would have known the strength that I had inside me to face the demons in my path. When we hit rock bottom I had the opportunity to completely change my entire life. It was the first time in my life that I felt completely in control. Strange, when so many things around me were completely out of my hands, but I had control over me. I had control over my life. If I wanted to change it, which I did, then I could take the steps to get there. So I re-focused my life, decided what was really important to me, and went after it. I went back to school, worked hard to do what I wanted to do, and got accepted into the program. Hitting rock bottom gave me the courage to go after my dreams. I didn’t need anyone anymore. A world of opportunities lay ahead and I could finally go after them on my own, and I did.
The year 2011 was the year I hit rock bottom, but it was also the year I rebuilt my life. What an amazing thing to be able to look back on the year and see the bittersweet miracles that happened when I hit the bottom.