Little Black Book

Reana, a girl in her early twenties goes to work Monday through Friday. She wakes up always disappointed about her life because she doesn’t know her purpose in life. She doesn't want to be stuck with just working at a minimum paying job but she also doesn’t know if she should go back to college because she has no idea what she likes and wants to do. She’s afraid of being in debt and not being able to pay it back. So she’s confused and doesn't know what to do, but one thing she does know is that she wants to know her purpose.

As she’s on her way to work on the city bus. She daydreams about what her life would be like if there were no challenges of doing and being anything. It’s a normal day for her, she arrives at work, and does her work and then comes back home. Everyday she is just living day by day with no meaning, always feeling empty and lost deep inside of her.

One night she dreams about being in the dark and suddenly a bright light shines down on a book. All she sees is that light and book. As she walks toward the light and the book to take a closer look at what it is, the more she gets closer the more light there is in that dark place she was in. As the book is right in front of her, she immediately wakes up.

When she awakes she wonders what that dream was about. Reana looks at the clock and it’s 7 am and she starts her day off. It’s a Saturday and she has no plans so she just stays in bed a little bit longer. Then she goes to the kitchen to look for food and there’s not much so she decides to go to the local grocery and buys food.

After grocery shopping. She cooks and eats. She grabs a snack and goes to her bedroom. She realizes how messy her room is so she puts her snack on her desk to eat later and cleans up and organizes her room first. When she organizes her shelf she sees a little black book that she has not seen for the longest time since she was a child. So she opens it up and begins to read it. Reana didn’t understand what the book was talking about so she put it away.

That night she dreams about the black book she saw again. And this time she had the black book in her hands and as she opened the book it lit up and all she knew was that, that book had wisdom in it. The book she was holding has so many treasures in it. She knew she had found something so good. She then held it to her heart and the whole book just melted right into her heart and she was filled with joy and happiness.

She wakes up from that dream and could still feel that joy and realizes that the black book in her dreams was the little black book she had read the other day. Reana goes searching for that book again and finds it. She reads it and this time she understood the meaning of the book. And with all that wisdom in the book she is guided to do what she needs to do. Each chapter she finishes, the more she finds her purpose to live.

Soon after that experience she had. She got a text saying she didn’t pay her phone bill and so she looks at her bank account and she barely has enough. And she has to wait a couple more days to get her paycheck. Reana feels so overwhelmed and just tries to not think about that stressful situation and picks up the black book and reads it and it calms her down and she just trusts that everything is going to be okay. After reading that book she flips to the back cover and sees that there were encouraging words there. And when she goes to look at her bank account the second time she sees that there was a large sum of money in her bank account.

She calls the bank and tells the banker that there was a mistake and the banker looks her up and her information and she says, “Oh no, there is no mistake. A man wanted to give this amount to you. He did say if this person asks why tell her this is a gift.”

Reana then tells the banker, “But I don’t know anyone.” Then the banker lets Reana know that this man was anonymous and that they have no information on this person. Also that the large amount of money was okay to keep.

She cries with happy tears. And just thinks about her life and how thankful she was and how thankful she was to have this black book that was part of this miracle that just happened. Now she doesn't have to worry about money. She can find what she enjoys to do with no worries. Reana’s thankful for everything that she’s gone through to be where she is right now and how things have happened the way it did.

As time goes by and years have passed by she has a beautiful family now and she passes this little black book down to her daughters that they can enjoy and learn and grow from it. And now her daughters can have something to comfort them when they are having a hard time.