RESILIENT

“Hey, you’ve reached Stacy; sorry I missed your call. If this is not a business related matter please DO NOT leave a voice message, text me your message instead. Thank you!” 

I’ve been so overwhelmed with voice messages as of late! I need to set a polite/professional/effective guideline! lol. Yay or nay?

The older I get the more I realize there are no grown ups and nobody knows what the fuck they’re doing.

“If you are faithful in little things, you will be faithful in large ones. But if you are dishonest in little things, you won’t be honest with greater responsibilities.” (Luke 16:10)

(Source: bloodsavedus)

“Remember that this is not something we do just once or twice. Interrupting our destructive habits and awakening our heart is the work of a lifetime.”

-Pema Chodron

A lifetime will seem like a long time to those who exist as if they will live forever; awakening the heart is not for the easily discouraged. 

(Source: lovemorefearless)

…..I was about eight-years-old when I first noticed the exact pigment of my skin tone. I will never forget it; I looked in the mirror and realized that I was a darker shade of black than my fellow African friend. Prior to this, in terms of skin color, to me you were either black or white. In my world there was no significant difference between light-skinned vs. dark-skinned or tan vs. beige, so at that moment it was as if I was seeing color for the first time. It never crossed my mind to link the experiences that led to this realization back to racism or discrimination. But how could it have? The history books that I was required to study overwhelmingly reinforced what a privilege it is that I can drink from whatever water fountain that I want to, that I can use the same restroom as my mzungu companion, and that I can sit in the front of the school bus on my ride to a “better education.” In the pages of the textbook realm that I visited each day in Social Studies class, racism and discrimination were a thing of the past.

Twelve years later what the material world continues to confirm is that racism is very much existent. In fact, it seems to me that the three underlying forces that fuel social inequality are racism, classism, and sexism….. Although it can be difficult to break free from a cycle of thinking, we can no longer solely rely on written history to define what we are worth today. It’s 2013! I am worth so much more than a sip of water at any fountain of my choice! This is the message that our history classes need to be reinforcing to our youth, but I digress. Our obsession with preserving the past and our constant need to identify with history is halting progression. Our predecessors have done their part. In order for the human race to continue evolving we must look within ourselves to determine what it is that we have been anointed to contribute to the universe, rather than limiting our worth to the mechanisms that have been put into place for us to contribute to.