I recently watched the new show on OWN ‘Iyanla Fix My
Life’ about ‘The Six Brown Chicks’. These are a group of black women who
started a blog together to empower women of all kinds. Ego’s got in the way,
greed, jealousy, anger, and hurt feelings contributed to the end of the
creative blog.
This particular show was so emotional, Iyanla made
these women get up close and personal, deep and raw with their feelings. I used
to be one of those women who didn’t trust another woman, who didn’t speak to
the sister next to me, and wasn’t friendly enough for her to speak to me. As
black women we treat each other so bad, we walk past one another without a
simple ‘Hello’ or even a smile. We hurt each other deeply, we turn on each
other we turn our back on each other.
Well I don’t do that anymore, I have grown and
changed. I am a woman and another woman can’t intimidate me, frighten me, make
me feel envious or inferior. I speak to other woman in my near space especially
another brown woman. I have a daughter and if I want her learn good morals and
values and just plain ‘ol respect for your sisters I have to lead by example. A
few years ago I gathered with a group of women in my life who all have a place
in my heart, we started a pit fire and threw our fears in the fire. That was
the beginning for me, I remember my writings and it took a while but I out
lived that fear. I now have a new fear. As we grow its only human to have many
fears but it’s only right to let them last only a little while, it’s time to do
something with this fear in my heart, my soul, this fear of being alone on my
mind, has to go.
It takes time and growth to realize our power. It takes
a sisterhood to get through some things. With all the things we have going on
nowadays, commitments, marriages, babies, jobs, ups and downs having a sister
whether blood or by choice is a necessity in a woman’s life.
I’m just saying, if I haven’t said I love you lately
I love You
