Bridges: A Life Building & Crossing Them

Many people start life in a less than opportune place. They yearn for something more IN their life, more TO their life, and must create opportunities for themselves. I've felt the drudgery of the daily ritual, of work in a place I didn't want to be with a hot sun blistering me. Hard manual labor in the cotton fields, day in and day out, is just that; a painful grind. And though the opportunity to earn money to help my family was appreciated, those days in the field spent in sweltering heat, bending and pulling over and over again until even young muscles and joints became tired and ached, were difficult. I would look up from the work and be thankful for each and any small breath of wind that would bring even a moment's respite. And the thought of days ahead, just like that one, made me hope for something better in my life.