GTFOOHWTBS
I promise it was my intent to speak kindly, but for me that’s the equivalent of being polite. I have no intention of being polite from now on. Being blunt is my style, but I’ve always been careful about how my words affected people. I never paid attention to how others spoke to me…until it was over and done with, and I would sit back in some hole and lick my wounds. Not now, not anymore. I guess I’m just tired. Tired of the BS! This piece CANNOT be long, or it will turn into a rant, and I truly prefer to be constructive. After all, if you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem. Or like I often tell my girls, if you’re not helping, you’re hurting. And lately, worldwide, way too many people have been hurt. “Smiling faces, …”
My spirit has been growing, changing direction, and I’m struggling to adapt to this new me. But, I can tell you, that I look at myself and others differently. I can tell that I talk and walk differently. I find myself getting quieter, but that silence has been time for me to find out exactly where I’m positioned. I can hear people a little more clearly now. I can see them and their BS a mile away. Things I innately ignored due to loyalty and “love”, I now hear people uncorked, see people unmasked. I’ve been walking taller — I get that BET Rebel swag once in awhile, which gives me LIFE!! I see the God in people and where He is, that’s where I want to be.
And so, my reality is also my warning to those who profess to know and love me: GTFOOHWTBS! Take your fake-ass loyalty and love elsewhere. If you think that you and your so-called perception of me completely defines me, mine, and/or my community, you’re wrong. I am love, I am super-natural, I am soul, I am multi-talented, I am multi-layered, I am black, I am all woman (and so yes, a mother, a wife, bold, and passionate), I am strength, and come from all these and more, have given birth to all these and more, simply because I AM HIS. This is MY birthright. Because you are His, too, I will not disrespect you, but I will no longer let you determine what I can and cannot do. I have given you too much power over my path already. You need to go your way, while I go mine. Carry on…

