Life is not always so simple. Nor is it complicated, but we make it so. However, the experiences of your present life, should be used to prepare yourself for an unknown future. That is exactly what I did.
Sometimes we grow up to be our parents. All parents are good, and they teach us, what their parents had taught them. But as we grow up, we should learn to change our mindset to live in the present times, and not in our parents generation. My growing up was not what the present generation is enjoying. As the oldest daughter in the family, I had to be a role model for my siblings. Which meant there were too many 'DONT'S" rather than "DOS". I was not allowed to go and play with other children, because my parents believed that daughters ought to help the mother in the housework. Preparing the daughters to be good wives and daughter in laws. They should be seen and not heard, so no speaking your mind. They should not be fashionably dressed. I had long lovely hair, which I was not allowed to leave falling like a veil on my back, they had to be tied into a bun or plait. No talking and playing with boys. It was a very depressing childhood. However, the saving grace was the love of reading.
My father loved reading, and so he imbibed the love of reading in me. He would get me every kind of books, from classics to novels to autobiographies etc. I devoured these books like a hungry person, thirsting for knowledge. I lived my life through the books I read. My mother was not so pleased with this preoccupation with books-past time as she would call it.
Time passed, I grew up, situations changed...and life dealt me a blow. Do I give in or do I use the situation to change my own destiny. Sometimes, situations arise in our lives, and we wonder, "Why Me"..who knows, they might be put there to change you, to mould you, to make you realise, that there is a world out there, waiting for you to discover. And I definitely, did not want to go along the situations, that were taking place in my life...I wanted to be what I wanted to be...and not what somebody else wanted out of me. Even if it was my parents or the man I married.
And so,I refrained from being manipulated...made a way for myself...and made a success of my life.
"Don't let anyone rob you of your imagination, your creativity, or your curiosity. It's your place in the world; it's your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live."— Mae C. Jemison, first African-American woman astronaut.
I had made up my mind , that my life would be what I wanted it to be. My life my choice....
Josephine - www.jos-axe-asize@blogspot.com
Sometimes we grow up to be our parents. All parents are good, and they teach us, what their parents had taught them. But as we grow up, we should learn to change our mindset to live in the present times, and not in our parents generation. My growing up was not what the present generation is enjoying. As the oldest daughter in the family, I had to be a role model for my siblings. Which meant there were too many 'DONT'S" rather than "DOS". I was not allowed to go and play with other children, because my parents believed that daughters ought to help the mother in the housework. Preparing the daughters to be good wives and daughter in laws. They should be seen and not heard, so no speaking your mind. They should not be fashionably dressed. I had long lovely hair, which I was not allowed to leave falling like a veil on my back, they had to be tied into a bun or plait. No talking and playing with boys. It was a very depressing childhood. However, the saving grace was the love of reading.
My father loved reading, and so he imbibed the love of reading in me. He would get me every kind of books, from classics to novels to autobiographies etc. I devoured these books like a hungry person, thirsting for knowledge. I lived my life through the books I read. My mother was not so pleased with this preoccupation with books-past time as she would call it.
Time passed, I grew up, situations changed...and life dealt me a blow. Do I give in or do I use the situation to change my own destiny. Sometimes, situations arise in our lives, and we wonder, "Why Me"..who knows, they might be put there to change you, to mould you, to make you realise, that there is a world out there, waiting for you to discover. And I definitely, did not want to go along the situations, that were taking place in my life...I wanted to be what I wanted to be...and not what somebody else wanted out of me. Even if it was my parents or the man I married.
And so,I refrained from being manipulated...made a way for myself...and made a success of my life.
"Don't let anyone rob you of your imagination, your creativity, or your curiosity. It's your place in the world; it's your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live."— Mae C. Jemison, first African-American woman astronaut.
I had made up my mind , that my life would be what I wanted it to be. My life my choice....
Josephine - www.jos-axe-asize@blogspot.com
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