Cool Banter

I've made terrible mistakes before, I have worked jobs that were not pleasing; just so I can pay the bills, I have been through some ugly stuff. Do I wish I had better opportunities? Absolutely! People hear my story and say, oh, honey I'm so sorry that you had to go through that, but you're a different person right now, you're not that same person anymore! And for a while, I used to tell myself this same thing. Then I stopped and started really thinking of the person I was back then and discovered something. Back then, I was a person who worked my ass off so hard so that I can get somewhere in my life! I was a person who would drop a seemingly great opportunity in an instant as soon as I realized it was degrading or a distraction from my dream. Who am I now? I'm still that person who won't give up on herself and those I care about, who fights for a better life every day, someone who won't take any degrading shit if I can! Because I have learned t...

Here's a little snippet from my life that I found very interesting at this time in history where women across the globe are starting to realize and claim their place in society. Last week, I was apart of a team of four women driving off to the village for a work-related task in the evening. A little context here, this is something that I've done for a couple of years now, in the same country, just a different location. We usually do this in the evenings and come back at midnight most of the time.  We went on with our business, setting up equipment which includes climbing up the truck to unload from the roof rack and setting up everything, then at the end load up the truck again. This is a very routine task for the women I work with. After this particular evening, the host of the place we went to called me on the phone to check up on how we faired on our way back home (this was a nice gesture). I told him we arrived safely about half an hour ago and thanked him for bei...