Well yesturday the devil tried so hard to work and take over my actions but I had to stop and step back and look at the whole picture. The things I can say is that I came to mapoon with no family nothing. I fell pregnant at a young age and I said to myself I am not going to bring our baby into the world sitting on Centrelink (no offense to those who are) I want a better life for my child (at the time) so I got myself a job and worked throughout the whole pregnancy. While being pregnant I coordinated two major events for Mapoon which was Mapoon Day and NAIDOC, didnt have anyone helping until the last minute. I still continued to work at the council for three years and even had another baby, studied at TAFE for two years and still did the same. My leadership skills showed the women of Mapoon that I am a leader and was nominated chairperson of Mapoon Womens Group. I soon left after being nominated because I wanted to experience the city life. I then returned earlier this year and started picking up from where I left. I not working at the council but I am still serving my community through my job with QLD Health. I went out of my way to help this community but a handful of people think that I big note myself but they dont have what I have which is respect. I respect the community and the community respects me and like the saying goes respect goes both ways but yet not once i seen them do anything what I have done and they been here more longer than me. I dont claim people they are my family I respect them because if they are or not related to my partner, I will respect them. I have had a hard life living in Mapoon and life is never easy but I got through it and I am still living in Mapoon with my beautiful family. I am grateful of what I have, I have beautiful children, good paying job and most of all my partner. Everyone makes mistakes but its when it is repeated all the time that people get angry. My whole point of this is dont go judging someone when you dont know them. I am proud of what I have done in the community and I will continue to do so because I am not letting people pull me back.
Posted on: Wed, 04 Dec 2013 23:32:32 +0000
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