WHO WE ARE

Ahh yes! The day of love.  A perfect day to celebrate your significant other and buy gifts just to show someone how much they mean to you. It's quite interesting to observe how people push heaven and earth to get the best for their loved ones based on what is socially acceptable or recommended. The idea is that certain things or items are a symbol or love and undying affection. It's more about grand gestures and the grander the gesture, the more the love. Now the issue comes in when these 'symbols of love' don't exactly fit into your budget and sometimes not even in the category of things your beloved considers important or affectionate. The fact is; love shouldn't be something that you celebrate once a year, it's something you celebrate everyday. Therefore it's not about the price tag or anything money can buy. Valentine's is a day to reinstate the sentiment and remember how far your relationship has grown and to celebrate your achieveme

Every time you look in the mirror, you see the things you love about yourself and the things you definitely hate. The idea is always to make the parts of our physical selves that we love stand out so that they compensate for and/or hide the things we hate. You'll wear a scarf to hide your long neck or a hat to hide your receding hairline or layers upon layers of makeup to disguise whatever you think is wrong with your face. Now there is nothing wrong with makeup or a wearing what you want. I mean, I for one love scarfs. But there is everything wrong with denying who you are and hiding it everyday. However, I'm not here to discuss physical appearances because those can be altered to suit our specifications,but who we are inside is something we can't change. You can go for plastic surgery to change your appearance but as Beyonce puts it, " its the soul that needs a surgery" .We are wired differently, we feel differently, we love differently and

Everyone has a past, a present and a future. We each have a story that defines who we are today and dreams that will define who we will be tomorrow. But our stories began long before we where born and will precede us long after we depart from this world. Our stories are journeys that begin with those who came before us. They are tethers to our roots, ties to our personalities and explain a lot about who we are and how we act. Our behaviors, mannerisms, beliefs, values and culture are explained most effectively by our past. It is tied to our very soul, spirit and in our minds. We can't neglect our origins. We can't run away from our past because it follows us into the future. It doesn't mean our past defines us. But only when we understand our past and accept it for what it is, that we are then able to redefine ourselves and map out the path we want to take. Every decision we make defines our future. Life is not one decision that defines who we are. It's a series