The Inner-City Woman

Ladies, ladies, ladies, ladies, ladies ( I borrowed that line from Nephew Tommy of the Steve Harvey Morning Show). Many women are living lives filled with drama and conflict and the never-ending feeling that they are missing out on something; that there must be more to life than what they’re living. We usually have to reach emotional bankruptcy or experience trauma or a life-threatening situation before we're willing to analyze what’s going on. (Humans are very reactionary people.) This particular post is to celebrate something that I think is so worthy of honor. You!
Ladies, life is all about balance. It is so important to learn how to focus on what’s important while realizing that we actually top that list. Usually, we make sure everyone else is okay and then we take care of ourselves but that is backwards thinking. We have to reverse that thought process if we want to have any hope of living an exciting, fulfilled life. All women are wonderful but the inner-city woman is phenomenal. We deal with so many different circumstances that other people don’t have to. Not many people realize how interesting our journey actually is. That got me to thinking about the struggle of women; especially minority women in the world today and everyday. And like with most things, once you’ve identified a problem, you have to work on a solution, so I pondered ways that we could begin to balance the scales.
What I’ve concluded is this. We can’t wait for “the incident” to occur before we begin to take notice of ourselves; our needs, our desires, our health. We are important every day. We are a priority. We have to begin to personify our gifts; to give life to all the things inside us that make us special but that we often take for granted and/or downplay so as to not stand out. We must take what we have and make it better, stronger, faster and we have to help each other. We have to work together to identify what inspires us; as well as what stands in the way of us living the way we’d really like to live. We have to explore our dreams and learn to deal with adversity. Then we must look at where others went wrong and devise a different path to take. We are going to fail, but then we’ll go back to the drawing board and try it again. We’re gonna build bridges, knock down walls and float on the life raft until we’re ready to fly. We’re gonna do it together, and then we’re going to go back and grab another woman by the hand and do it all over again.
Start thinking about your future. It begins today.
Peace- two fingers, one love!