Learning Strength
I've been very blessed in my life to have had a lot of strong women helping to raise me. Not only my mother and grandma, but my nana, aunty and cousin are all strong women! Plus my family of choice (those I've chosen to take up residence in my family sphere) has had some excellent female role models so I never really got the idea that I should be a woman that a man would take care of, as nice as that sounds sometimes in theory, for me to just be a kept woman, I couldn't do it!! I've chosen to live my life so those women who have shown me what it means to be strong in the face of adversity can be proud of me and also so that the girls I may possibly be influential to, know how to make good choices so they stay strong. One of the women who had a strong influence in my life was a friends mom, and she has since passed on now. She was always so happy, even when she was sick. She showed such strength when my friend was going through a really tough time. My friend was m...