She was desperate. She was fed up with her daily routine. She found out that she was doing nothing useful and that she had no energy to struggle for the things she loved. She wanted to break through, to make a change and to be different. However, she thought she's too weak to do it on her own. Maybe she needed somebody to help? Someone to be the reason for the change? A new best friend or a true love? A superhuman who'd make her believe in her capabilities?
These thoughts had always invaded her mind, and now she's totally convinced that from the middle of nowhere someone will show up and make her do all the right things she's supposed to have done earlier when she wanted to.
She grabbed a book of short stories. One of the stories included was called seeking self confidence. This one was only nine or ten pages long and it had only two characters: A & B who were in a continuous argument during the whole story. Character A is a pessimist who lacks self confidence, just like herself. Character B is completely the opposite and always looks at things with a different perspective from A's.
It was this last conversation between the two characters that touched her the most; when A whined again and B just said: " I don't really understand; how can you believe in God but not believe in his capabilities? I mean being a believer isn't only knowing that He exists. It includes believing in His capabilities, in His power to change everything in a blink of an eye. It means you've got to believe in your own capabilities too because He was the one who granted them to you. Besides, for every time you feel down why are you always waiting for someone to lift you up? Why aren't you there for yourself when you need YOU the most? You are victimizing yourself and if you don't do something about it, nobody else will interfere simply because it is your own life and you're the one who's supposed to make it worthy."
She figured out in the end of the story that both characters were nothing but echoing sounds in human's ears; which meant that they were just conversations everybody has inside their minds from one to time to another.
It isn't that a story has changed her life or anything, but it affected her deeply. She realized that she'd always allowed her character A to take over. She decided to see things differently, which when she did, her life changed.
She's sure now that she'd never been in need of a superhuman. She just needed her superself and now that she's started to glow, she is certain that the reason why her life's changed is because she believed. In everything.
