a dream deferred: A Dream Deferred

a dream deferred: A Dream Deferred

A Dream Deferred

At 18 years of age, she thought she knew what i wanted out of life. She wanted a family. She wanted a Bill Cosby family- husband, wife, no outside children, the works. She met a man of 20 who had a three-year-old son. Within three months of meeting him she got pregnant. She thoroughly explained to the young man what kind of life she wanted for her child. There was one outside child and that she could not control. Long story short, the outside child turned out to be some other man's child, and he left the young lady three weeks after their baby was born. This was his first child and for the life of her she could not understand why he would leave her and the baby. Then she remembered the mental illness she had. Major depression disorder was the diagnosis. She realized her depression had pushed him away. She checked herself into a mental institution and is currently on her way to recovery. This young lady believed the love she and the young man had shared was true. The bad things she had done to him were because of an illness and surely true love would understand. The young man refuses to believe in mental illness; all he could say was that the young lady was crazy. So what happens to her dream? What is she to do when her only dream appears to have been destroyed? Her immediate answer, given her mental condition was to kill herself. For this was not the life she had imagined for her or her daughter. But there came a time when she realized all she could do was live.