Oprah Winfrey not only changed my life but she saved it too.
I have been watching the Oprah Winfrey show just about all my life. She has always been a relatable inspiration to me but in the last 3 years she became something more to me.
After some rough personal times I became lost and stuck on survival mode. My life was work and coming home to hide away from the world. I was a ghost of who I was and I totally lost sight of who I wanted to become. In those years I worked at the radio station and trudged along in depression, I was never able to make it home in time to watch Oprah. Until one day I was home sick with the flu, sitting like a zombie on my couch, when the Oprah show came on and introduced me to Eat Pray Love. That moment changed me so much. First of all it got me off the couch and to Chapter’s because when Oprah tells me to buy a book… I go… immediately. Reading that book got me to realize that I have the power to change things in my life. I didn’t need to be stuck anymore.
After the phenomenon that was Eat Pray Love, I have dedicated myself to watching Oprah every day and frequent her website as much as I do Facebook. This glorious, strong, powerful woman came into this world poor and unwanted. She suffered intense pain and heartache at a very young age and still somehow made herself into a mogul. You can say what you will about Oprah. Maybe she is a bit oversaturated and her personality at times, overwhelming. But you can’t deny that Oprah uses her influence in amazing ways that have changed the world. I know she has changed mine.
Oprah and her show inspire me every day because when I was down and out it was not the silver lining and better day clichés that people threw at me that made me feel better. What got me through was seeing people come back and thrive after devastation in their life, most suffered losses that I could never really understand. But when I see mothers who have lost children start charities to make the world a better place, women who are married off at 11 years old come back to earn a PhD and build schools to help girls like themselves, and 500 pound women and men save themselves from the brink of death; I have faith. I have faith because I come from the same clothe that these people do. We all do. We come from the same God/Universe/Creator/etc that created these strong, resilient survivors and Oprah herself. And somehow thinking about that made me feel less alone and less afraid to take part in life again. This past year I vowed to change my life because Oprah and all the amazing resilient guests on her show made me believe in the power of my existence and for that I am forever grateful. Thank you Oprah for 25 inspiring years and for all the things I know you are going to continue doing to make the world a better place.
“The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.” – Oprah.
I have been watching the Oprah Winfrey show just about all my life. She has always been a relatable inspiration to me but in the last 3 years she became something more to me.
After some rough personal times I became lost and stuck on survival mode. My life was work and coming home to hide away from the world. I was a ghost of who I was and I totally lost sight of who I wanted to become. In those years I worked at the radio station and trudged along in depression, I was never able to make it home in time to watch Oprah. Until one day I was home sick with the flu, sitting like a zombie on my couch, when the Oprah show came on and introduced me to Eat Pray Love. That moment changed me so much. First of all it got me off the couch and to Chapter’s because when Oprah tells me to buy a book… I go… immediately. Reading that book got me to realize that I have the power to change things in my life. I didn’t need to be stuck anymore.
After the phenomenon that was Eat Pray Love, I have dedicated myself to watching Oprah every day and frequent her website as much as I do Facebook. This glorious, strong, powerful woman came into this world poor and unwanted. She suffered intense pain and heartache at a very young age and still somehow made herself into a mogul. You can say what you will about Oprah. Maybe she is a bit oversaturated and her personality at times, overwhelming. But you can’t deny that Oprah uses her influence in amazing ways that have changed the world. I know she has changed mine.
Oprah and her show inspire me every day because when I was down and out it was not the silver lining and better day clichés that people threw at me that made me feel better. What got me through was seeing people come back and thrive after devastation in their life, most suffered losses that I could never really understand. But when I see mothers who have lost children start charities to make the world a better place, women who are married off at 11 years old come back to earn a PhD and build schools to help girls like themselves, and 500 pound women and men save themselves from the brink of death; I have faith. I have faith because I come from the same clothe that these people do. We all do. We come from the same God/Universe/Creator/etc that created these strong, resilient survivors and Oprah herself. And somehow thinking about that made me feel less alone and less afraid to take part in life again. This past year I vowed to change my life because Oprah and all the amazing resilient guests on her show made me believe in the power of my existence and for that I am forever grateful. Thank you Oprah for 25 inspiring years and for all the things I know you are going to continue doing to make the world a better place.
“The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.” – Oprah.
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