01/10/2023
*****Dear world*******
I didn’t know how to feel the other day when a friend said to me “I admire your strength”. For some reason I felt like a fraud. You see, I haven’t felt strong in a long time. I’ve been getting by and like many who have had anything happen in their life, I have been paralyzed in my own agony. Yes, it may seem like life may be the hardest thing to endure when tragedies strike but no, living life and not just going through it is by far the most challenging. You see what God finally made me realize that day is that I am not what is happening to me. I am the result of what I choose to become from it. Like anyone else in this world, I have God given strength but of course like Mr. Bob Marley once said, “none but ourselves can free our minds”. So, my point is we must not be what happens to us, but must choose to be better than what our fathers gave us. I am not the little girl abused, or the daughter of a man who laid comatose for years before dying, or sister of a brother who came to the same fate. No, we are not the mistakes of others or victims of life hands us. We are what we choose to be. If you woke up today, feel grateful. Tell yourself you’re strong and that you will not be what victim of circumstance. Tell your truth and be comfortable with what you have endured. Its your story and like one of my favorite people, Maya Angelou, taught me “there is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you”. Live, not just to survive but to thrive.
Light and love
Jey