What Do You Really Want?

A Friend For Life

A few days ago, I got fixated on an article, it must have been the topic that got me hooked, I sank deeply in the softness of my pillow savaging the pleasure this good piece offered.

At the end of this article, I became confused. Not because the writing wasn’t good enough. No. It was one of the best writing I read in weeks. However, I was troubled with the question the writer threw at me at the end.

I have always known what I wanted in life, or so I thought. Things don’t usually land on my plate, somehow I cracked on with the thornsspines, and prickles of life.

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By The Way, I Am Not That Special.

I am not that special and this is a reality. I am part of the zillions of human being living on Planet Earth. It’s glaring I breathe in the same air and blood runs through my vein. I eat food grown in the soil of this planet and drink from the body of waters which surround it.

Clearly, I am not a special specie the world is yet to discover. I communicate through speech, gesture and signs. I am a mother like loads of various women from various cultures and background.

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I Am A People Pleaser And This Stops Now!

This might sound odd, but I am a people pleaser. Or should I say was? This wasn’t me some years back. I was never like this. Back then, I was a cup of sugarless organic black tea. I wasn’t a cup of tea for all. I had a league of my own.

But, somehow, I was labelled. I was that rude girl who saw herself above everyone. People misinterpreted my personality. And when my sister said in her disarming frankness, ” This is why people think you’re proud and a snub”, I decided to turn a new leaf. Her words pinched deeper than she said it. I felt stupid for being me.

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