In these days of social media it's quite easy for people to feel good about themselves and equally as easy for them to feel bad about themselves. It takes a ' like' for someone to feel as if they are good enough and the lack of a ' like' for them to feel as if they aren't good enough. There are those who even go further as to compromise their values and drastically change who they are just to get the required 'likes' to feel as if they are indeed good enough. For some who meet this level of likes they tend to use it as a label to ridicule those who aren't able to meet that level. As we go through each day let us ponder the thought do you still feel good enough after you sign off the internet? Do you feel as if you are achieving your purpose after you aren't able to check on the likes you have received? What would truly matter if the Internet was no longer with us would those who feed your ego still be there?
Image source: Google Images His beautiful dark skin made rich from the earth, his physical strength supporting where I am physically weak, his beautiful smile and then the depth of his speech. In a world where the wrongs that he has done is spoken about more frequently than what is good about him. I see the beauty in black unions,I see the beauty in black souls connecting, I see beauty in being by his side. The issue is, he no longer sees beauty in me. We walk paths these days paved with the broken connections. Couples who once professed to be so deeply in love now pretend to not know each other. We walk paths where you can pour the purest of love into the vessel of a man/woman and they remain empty. On one side, we have black men who believe that black women have lost their worth. They have lost the meaning of what it means to be a Queen. The black man believes that the black woman has wrapped herself in the labels that society has placed on her. The black woman is ofte...
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