Speeches

Success is no accident. I don’t believe in luck, the magic wand, the quick fix. Principles, progress, passion, plans and process being passionate lead to success. I am tired of competition. Competition can drain you, exhaust you, belittle you. The world offers me up a home and sanctuary. Before I actually believed that loneliness was a perfectly normal state of mind, and it became my reality for the longest time. Sadness and frustration, despair and frustration, hardship and frustration became a daily excuse that held me back from accepting the substance of my reality. There is always something to be grateful for. I take the mask off, looking for the process of growth in my own capabilities and integrity. I have nothing to hide. I have nothing to hide anymore. I do the right thing, even though I am not being rewarded. I don’t want to give less anymore. I want to live my best life. Let this be the self-fulfilling prophecy in your life today. I write this for the world. I dream. I live. I am a blessing. I chase the blessing. I chase an abundant life. I chase mastering my potential. I want to love. I love myself. I love my mother. I love my father. I love my brother. I love my sister. I am a success in life. I am positive about life, about having clear goals. I am restored.

Restoration, sacrifice, atonement, redemption is power. It is worth the prize. I don’t look back. I let go of the past even though it hurt me. Even though my mother wounded me deeply. Even though my father never always loved me. Even though my sister is not on this journey with me. Even though my brother rejected me. I don’t just think of my happiness, I think of my mother’s happiness, my father’s happiness, my sister’s happiness, my brother’s happiness and my own happiness.

Always lead by example. Mahatma Gandhi did, Princess Diana, Maya Angelou, Oprah Winfrey, Mandela, Winnie Mandela, our world leaders at this time. We have all been hurt before. Never lose the lessons you have learned. I don’t want to lose the lessons that hurt gave me, that woundedness gave me, that that wounded feeling gave me. We are all exceptional. Humanity is exceptional. Humanity is extraordinary. And don’t you ever forget that. We are all learning about forgiving ourselves on this global stage, in this arena, in this moment in time.

I don’t often or always feel complete. I never felt loved as a child.

I am an existence all on my own. Love yourself and give me of yourself in relationships. I was always looking outside of myself. I value myself now. Nobody valued me as a child, in youth and adolescence, I always felt an exceptional sadness, an exceptional loneliness and frustration and solitude was always around in my environment. The negative was always my authentic connection, my reasoning for everything as a child. I never believed i love. I want the world to see the flicker of my spark, the flicker of the spark in humanity.

Let them go. Let them miss you because you can’t stand the inner pain anymore that they give you. This is what I tell myself now. I forgive my mother, my father, my brother and my sister. These are the four people who have hurt me the most in my life. I reveal my true self now. I don’t believe in the false advertising of my ego. In my case I must follow my own path and no longer look to my family to give me the unconditional love, support and acceptance that I have always craved.

That my inner child has always craved. Be yourself. You are worthy.

Nothing is worth it except happiness. I reveal my true authentic and original self. I am positive and inspiring. Go ahead and be a positive and inspiring miracle humanity. Humanity live your best life, your purpose is waiting for you. Every single one of us. It is a new world, a new reality, and the non-reality we lived in before is past, erased as if it never happened, never was. It belongs in another dimension, our past. Humanity let go of your defence mechanisms, the cognitive thinking that came before, let us all adjust our behavioral compass as we navigate this new world. The New World. This New Earth. Humanity you are worthy. You are worthy.

Abigail George
Abigail George
Abigail George is an author, a screenwriter and an award winning poet. She is a Pushcart Prize, two-time Best of the Net nominated, Sol Plaatje European Union Poetry Prize longlisted, Writing Ukraine Prize shortlisted, Identity Theory's Editor's Choice, Ink Sweat Tears Pick of the Month poet/writer, and 2023 Winner of the Sol Plaatje European Union Poetry Award. She is a two-time recipient of grants from the National Arts Council, one from the Centre of the Book and another from ECPACC. She won a national high school writing competition in her teens. She was interviewed by BBC Radio 4, and for AOL.com, the USA Today Network and The Tennessean. Follow her on Facebook, LinkedIn and Instagram @abigailgeorgepoet.