Inspire 2019

As a woman I've learned so much in my 1/4 century that I've been in this complicated yet beautiful world! You start from being this sweet little girl that dreams of being a pretty little princess clad in purple or pink tutus accented with a huge a Cinderella bow and topped up by a diamond tiara. You are obsessed with tea parties, fairies and everything is sunshine and rain bows. Life is at its finest, until enter puberty! All you think about now is how dreamy the boy is in the romantic novel. How you can't wait to have your real first kiss! Everything is oh-so-lala- land fantasy until your first love breaks your heart and then something changes. The romantic fairytale your mother warned you would burn you when you're a teenager, comes crumbling down! Enter 21 and you're probably long wide eyed from experiences of barely any heartbreaks but enough! You're healed and ready to go again. Love, hurt, heal repeat is the motto. Then comes more comp...

"No one's really that valuable. It's just a societal construct to give an illusion of grandeur about someone you are attached to" My friend said this to my face and at first I was shocked, then disappointed then it slowly begun to sip in. He had had enough of me talking about my disappointments with people and everything else in my life and he had distanced himself a bit. "Hope you take life too seriously" he casually joked when we had conversations. Steve had become a friend of mine in an unlikely environment. I used to tuck myself in a little corner in a restaurant listening to meditation music and loud reggae music from the bar in what seemed like utter seclusion every evening since the year begun. I was constantly overwhelmed from everything going on and being there by myself every evening felt good. I didn't know anyone and no one seemed to know me at first. Then one day I met Steve. He said he saw me sit alone every evening for ...