I said I was going to be the first to break generational curses.
She laughed.
I said “Is something funny?” She said no. I don’t know why I laughed actually. Sorry.
I stared in shock and awe. And I mean awful because that is exactly how I felt, as I remembered what childhood me felt like.
Being too much. Too different. It was the same familiar feeling.
I could perceive so much. See so much. Not only did she not share in the vision. She didn’t even try.
I had no idea I was on stage.
It was in that moment, I decided I didn’t want anyone else to shrink. To sink. Because when you shrink, so does your vision. Your thoughts. Your personality.
And the world needs more of you, not less.
Expression is expressed because we need to feel. Words are spoken because we need to hear. Lights are turned on in the dark because we need to see. Same with vision. Same with ideas.
Safety is created and found in the seen. Because you can’t easily identify what you don’t see.
Especially in the dark.
If I could be the person receiving someone like that, I would. I would foster it. Illuminate it. Make the light a little brighter with affirmation.
Because you deserve that. I deserve that. We deserve that.
And babe? Shine the light on em’.
This is for the woman who has always been a little too much for rooms that were a little too small.
And for the girls with as much vision, goals, and ideas as there are stars in the universe. Amielle is your space to feel safe and as expansive as the universe inside and outside of you. 💕
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this felt like a warm hug and a much needed reminder! 🫂💕
What stayed with me is the decision to become for others what you once needed yourself. There is something powerful in refusing to let an old absence simply reproduce itself through us.
We may not be able to change the rooms in which we learned to shrink, but we can become people who make the rooms around us larger for someone else…