By Janita Mercado, Freshman, WLI Class of 2011
Shared during Woman II Woman Talent/Creativity Session, 12.10.10
-Every individual has a story; their stories are all unique. That’s the obvious.
-Now does every individual understand the power that they hold within because I don’t think so
-Im not speaking about the physical power to let's say punch through a wall but the power they hold over the daily decisions they make, the power of overcoming certain challenges, the power to recover after every fail, and so much more.
-I don’t think everyone here, in this room, at this second fully understands that each and everyone of you are beautiful females, with strong wills, smart thoughts, talented, with great features, big hearts, and may I add females that hold power to control their own life whether it be personal, professional, or romantic life.
-See after spending some time with you girls, exchanging a handful of words with some of you and spending time with myself I have learned so much about my power. I have taken advantage of my power to write my own story.
Life is rough; deal with it and stop bitchin
Life is dumb sometimes, so what
Life tends to throw love at you at all the wrong times; ugh I hate boys
Life is so hard; oh well build a bridge and get over it
Life is complicated; yea that’s because you procrastinate so much duh stupid
I'm not smart enough. WOW WOW WOW, stop don’t you dare say one more word wtf are
you thinking? Never ever think less of yourself. Fuck that, you are more than smart and if you continue with life with the mentality that you're not smart enough, give up now. Say "forget this". Yea right, you know damn well life is not going to bring you down without you putting up a fight.
Life isn’t fair; yea well name one thing that is.
See one thing that I fully understand is that life will never be easy, it won't build a sign in the road that says “hey you, go this way, it’s the right way” or “yo, turn around stupid you're going the wrong way”
Usually, we have to learn on our own, we have to experience dumb things like love, dumb things like stress and complicated choices. But in all reality the experience is never dumb, it's only going to teach you something that you didn’t know before.
Life is not easy but be a woman and be strong, I'm sure you know you are strong, I'm sure you just need to find that strength to fight and never give up. So the fuck what you failed. The world is not going to end, the story doesn’t end, it's just beginning. Don’t give up, just brush your shoulders off and try again, and again if you have to… why?
Because you can, because you have the POWER to do what you wanna do.
You're beautiful and you're not the only one who sees you are; others do too. Don’t tell yourself you're not worth something and don’t let anyone treat you like you are a piece of shyt. You're not, and we all deserve the world like my mom used to tell me. I never realized why she used to go crazy on people that used to talk shyt about me or who told me I wont measure up to them. (I'm talkin bout she went all ganster on their asses sometimes) But now I see, she believed me from scratch, I now believe in myself. It takes someone else to see the beauty within you, point
it out, in order for you to see that it is true; you deserve the world. Love life and cherish it. Even the negatives. Do something that makes you feel beautiful.
As for now I'm going to do something that makes me feel beautiful; I'm going to dance!
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