Women Re-shaping the World!

It never ceases to amaze me when people are the main perpetrators of things they condemn.  Yes yes no one is perfect but jeez man some things just  a little too much.

Tonight five thirty something year old women sat around a kitchen table reminiscing on "Convent days", laughing, snickering and just having a good old time.

We always tend to crave the things that are bad for us. The day I discovered I was allergic to strawberries the strawberry cheese cake parfait at KFC was never more tempting; I found myself wrestling with the thought of buying myself one just so I could have a spoonful, not even the entire thing lol.

We all want to be nice, we want to be the one who stands up for the truth, who helps the little old lady with her shopping bag, the one who never gossips, who avoids conflicts, who doesn't procrastinate...

I am never the type to say "Who she, she just jealous me" because for as long as I have known myself there are two things I hold firm to:
1. According to my mother never be jealous of people because of what they have because you don't know how they got it and
2.I always say that what ever opportunity I have been blest with there is probably someone who could have done more with it.

Bob Marley's "Redemption Song" is one of the greatest songs ever made!!

It is a song that challenges us to do many things; educating ourselves and standing up for injustice are just two.

We are often placed in situations where we are to be an element of change, sadly many of us shy away from these opportunities because we are uneducated. I don't mean uneducated in the sense that we never went to school but in the sense that we are often unaware of the rights of others and ourselves.

Yesterday when I logged into my Facebook account one of the first posts that I saw was from cousin Jozelle: "Your period of 'testing' only ends when God's purpose has been accomplished...so if you are still going through it...hold fast, be strong, trusting that the end the Lord has in store is Perfect. Be blessed everyone."

There are few women who want to be everything like their mother's as much as we may admire these women in our lives many of us try our hardest to avoid being too much like them.

Most times we see our mothers as strong women, but we also see them as frail human beings who have made a few mistakes of their own; mistakes in career choices, men, the way they raised us or didn't raise us.  The amount of mistakes we can list I think tells more of our personal development than anything else.

So after years of growing my locks and taking great care in them this idiot from down the road is to turn to me and say I am jealous of his bongo and that my locs "don't have meaning".  Now being who I am I did not call him an idiot to his face but I feel the need to do so now because I don't care to be nice to people with such silly mindsets. I did, however, say to him "You can't tell someone there locks are without meaning; people have locks for different reasons. What is important to you might not be important to someone else" 

I am always amused at how those of us who refer to ourselves as Christians chastise others for wrong doings while committing a wrong as well...lol yes I am judging.