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Never allow someone to kill your dreams.

Guest post by: Swiyyah Muhammad

Article Overview: Never allow someone to kill your dreams. Please take my advice.

Never allow someone to kill your dreams.

I was watching Oprah's new network Own and she had a show on about the famous poet Maya Angelou. She went through many trials and tribulations before she reached her fame. Her mothers boyfriend raped her when she was seven, only seven years old. I never knew this before today. The man was put in jail later for one day only and then released and killed. She had told her uncles what happened to her and because she told them she thought her words killed him so she became mute. Later a teacher, Mrs. Flowers, took her to the library and taught her to read. This helped her begin to speak again. Later in life she had a child and the only way she knew to take care of this child is to prostitute. I think if she wasn't raped she would have never went down that path. Maya Angelou went through all of this and still pursued her dreams. Keep your dreams to yourself only telling those that are pursuing the same dream as you. Never allow someone to kill your dreams. Some people are very insecure about their own dreams. They feel like they hate their job and if they quit and pursue their dreams, they won't make it. They feel since they won't make it you won't either, and they don't want to see you get hurt. Someone almost killed my dreams. She was supposed to be my mentor and she told me I would never make any money at TV producing, so I quit for a while. Still to this day I'm affected by this because my passion for TV producing is gone and I'm trying to get it back. So never let anyone kill your dreams. Keep dreaming and volunteering. I think as long as you're living your dreams you will become successful. You may end up in a different field of study but you will end up successful.

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