Unicorn Like Me!

Appreciating What Makes Me ME

Me: Photo is mine

Self Love Month, according to Google was in January, but Rodrigo S-C wants to talk about it in March.

Let’s March Into March

I’m okay with it because every month should be self-love month. I think a lot of our problems could be solved if we were freely able to love and appreciate our good qualities.

I say this as someone who never did that. I grew up hating myself. I spent the first 40 years of my life wanting to be anyone but me.

I was small. I longed to be big. My hair was a huge, thick, curly mess. I longed to have the straight, blonde feathers my classmates had. I was smart. I wanted to be kinda ditzy because in the 80s nobody wanted to be smart.

I was sensitive, too sensitive for my own good. I longed to be cool, distant, and a bit heartless, like the vixens in the movies.

I was a white-looking, mixed-race kid living in a house full of Black people in a town full of white people.

To say I was different would be a gross understatement. I was a freak! I swear that Sesame…