3. Chasing Dreams
Hi Friends, I think we’ve established that that’s what we are,
Today I wanted to honor myself.. well myself this week ( February 4th- 9th) in February of last year. Hear me out because there’s a tie in with my debut release
You see friends like many Indie Authors, I too work a 9 to 5, however the job i work now is not the job I worked previously and I have 2024 N.A. Sabreen to thank for that. Being a black woman in a role where you have the sole knowledge of the job you’re doing is all fun in games until your back is against the wall and you have no one in management to fall back on.
That’s what happened to me friends and quite honestly, I was tired, I’d been in the role for two years but I’d been working there since I was nineteen, I was twenty six and tired, I felt like I was getting nowhere and quite frankly I needed a break so I quit, and let me tell you quitting with no particular direction has to be the most unsettling thing but hey sometimes you have to take that leap of faith. This was also around the time I’d started getting the bug to write my debut novel heavily. I couldn’t get Micah’s story out of my mind, along with how to navigate the real time depression of not having enough stable income to chase the dream.
It was quite taxing, yet the words didn’t stop flowing nor did the feeling that I was going to be alright. All of 2024 I spent time working on Love’s Last Song, until I got to the point to where I knew it was ready for professional edits and eventually for the world. The job i have now, though taxing physically and mentally allows me the freedom to write and travel to my heart’s desire and honestly? I’ve never felt more free.
So today I honor 2024 N.A. Sabreen, without her sacrifice and determination into the unknown, I wouldn’t be publishing my first of many books.
I’ll leave you with this, Trust yourself and your instincts, sometimes the change you need is behind the choices you know are the hardest to make
as I pen this it’s officially two weeks out from Release Day and as we draw near the anticipation is settling in my bones, but you all won’t see this until the night before release day.
N.A. Sabreen
