Since I was young, my journaling has been my best friend, counselor and therapy. My writing helps me to understand whatever the situation I’m in and helps me to see what’s happening and where can I go from there. It has been almost 26 years since I started writing. I still remember the day right before I moved to the states. One of my cousins gave me a journal and said to me, “ This is a going-away gift for you from me. Make sure before you move, write down everyone’s mailing address in this journal, so we can all write letters to each other”. And he wrote his own address into the journal and gave it to me. Right a away, I loved his gift. This was a time when technology wasn’t available as it’s now.
The very first story I wrote into that journal was my entire travel experience while I was on my way from Karachi to the Chicago. It has been almost 26 years, and still to this day when I open my journal it takes me back to that brand new unknown experience. This was the time I couldn’t speak or write English so I wrote in Urdu, the Pakistani native language.
One thing led to another, and I got busy with family and the kids. But I never stopped writing. If not every day, whenever I got the chance even for few sentences. I always felt better once I put my thoughts onto the paper. Later on while I was still keeping a journal, I made my writing blog and started writing for newspaper columns and am still writing those. But that didn’t satisfy me. I always admire people who write books. And I was envied them and wondered if one day I could also write a book.
My writing-a-book project started two years ago, without knowing how people publish. It wasn’t an easy task, but once you make your mind about anything, you can achieve it. I am a true believer you just do your part, then the universe does the rest. One thing leads to another, and before you know it, your complete dream is right in front of you and smiling at you. I ’m proud to say yesterday July 16, I ordered my first copy. Here is my link to my book http://www.amazon.com/Life-Beautiful-Zainab-Susi/dp/1514635046/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1437934235&sr=1-1
I must thank those people you believed in me and helped me to make my dream come true. I thank you from bottom of my heart. People like you make this world more beautiful.
As many of you know, this year I didn’t make New Year's resolutions but am making monthly resolutions. And my month of July resolution was to publish my book. And I did it.
My whole point in writing this article is whatever you dream was or is never ever too late to achieve. The only time we can’t achieve is when we give up. Whoever said it was so true that, “winners never quit,” and quitters never win”. Be happy doing it and believe in yourself; you can do it.
