Month: September 2016

Inspirational, motivation

Queen 👸🏾

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Queen 👸🏾

I call myself queen because I feel that I am so. I believe that I am a descendant of a bloodline of royalty tracing back to West Africa. Of course, I do not know that as fact, but it is what I perceive to be true, and my 23andme ancestry results said that I am 89% West African. With all of the injustice among black people and the racist remarks coming from some white people, it has had me digging and searching for answers. I recently started watching the Roots series on Hulu. It was so hard for me to watch that I could not even finish the first episode. They way that people treat people is cruel. Slavery is something that I do not think African Americans should ever get over, just like Jews should never get over the Holocaust, and Native Americans should never get over the killing of their people.

At some point, we as a people and a nation have to realize that the things that happened in the past have a domino effect. Just because I was not alive during slavery and the civil rights movement, does not mean that I don’t feel the pain from those times now. When you learn about your history and what your ancestors endured, it stings. It hurts. It is painful.

The things that are happening today in America with the police brutality, black on black crime, and the prison system shows me that we still have a long way to go as a nation. Everyone isn’t treated equally. Money talks in this country, and if you don’t have money then you’re expected to shut your mouth and comply. It’s another way to control people.

I will say that there are way more opportunities now then there was back in the day for black people, and people in general.  If you want to change your life or the lives of others around you, the time is now. You have to open your mind to new opportunities. To change, you must change. If you keep complaining and doing the same thing, you’re going to keep getting the same results.

Once I started to address myself as a queen, things around me began to change. People started treating me and addressing me as such also. When I changed my mindset and started to elevate myself to that level of a queen, opportunities showed up all around me. I expect the best. Therefore, I get the best. There is nothing wrong with holding yourself to a higher standard.

Inspirational

Gratitude 😌

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Gratitude 😌

Today that word has been appearing constantly to me. Sometimes I get so caught up in the things that I want and I don’t have, that I forget how blessed I really am. It doesn’t happen often, but when it does I get in a real funk.

A couple days ago I had a pipe burst in my house that caused water to go in my kitchen, living room, dining room, and garage. Unfortunately, I did have water damage to my laminate floors in my living and dining room. I was excited that morning when I woke up, because it was Friday and that excitement quickly turned into panic. I was running around trying to figure out how to cut the water off. Luckily, my neighbor was really nice and helped me out. I cleaned most of the water off of the floor, but that wasn’t the hardest part. The hardest part was contacting my insurance company, an after disaster company, and my warranty company. I think I handled the situation very well considering what had happened.

I’m not going to lie,  I was upset by the end of the day because no one had come out to fix anything yet, and I hadn’t heard from the contractor that my warranty company was supposed to send. Then I remembered that most people my age don’t go through this situation because they aren’t able to own a home at 25. I suddenly became very grateful that I was even able to experience this “disaster”. I thought about how blessed I was to actually be at my home when it happened, and not out of town because the situation would have been way worse. Now I’m able to get my floors redone with my insurance money, and not my own. The after disaster guys from SERVPRO even cleaned my tile! They look so much better now 😊.

I said all of that to say this, it’s better to be grateful for the things that you have through the good times and bad. Don’t focus on what you don’t have because more than likely you will never have it. If you’re always thinking about the “lack of” something that’s what you’re going to attract. So instead be grateful for everything and greater things will come to you.