“About to take another shower on my 27th hour.” My 27th birthday is still sinking in. It was incredible, and still is. The turn up was so real, the love was so present, and the blessings were abundant. In the span of my birthday week I picked up my first check as a travel agent, got my dream apartment, and had the time of my life with my favorite people in the world.
26 was amazing to me, and I know 27 will be different but in all good ways. 27 is brining a whole new level of growth and responsibility that I am not only ready for but willing to take on. Everyone that wished me a happy birthday yesterday all mentioned how full of life I am and I never want to lose that. I am truly living my life to the fullest, and here’s to 27 more years of doing so!
-Becks
Thursday, May 22, 2014
Tuesday, February 4, 2014
Daily Thought: Anita's Box
I know we have all heard the myth about Pandora's box. Basically Pandora's box is 4 walls that form a box and hold all of the worlds evils. When opened, the contents of the box can reek havoc on the world. I believe we as women all contain a Pandora's box of our own in our minds. And instead of holding the world's evils this box contains all of the unaddressed, and compartmentalized feelings we harbor.
I will go ahead and call this box Anita's box. Yes, Anita Baker, Anita. We all know Aunties Anita is good for a heart wrenching love song sung in an octave that only she can pull off. One of the most known of these songs is "Caught Up In The Rapture." I like to use this phrase as a metaphor for those times you are scrambling and dealing with feelings that seemingly come from no where. But the rapture does not descend upon us like a swarm of locusts when we least expect it. It slowly builds up on us.
That dude you met that you weren't worried about until he stopped worrying about you. Or that person that never quite goes away. Or that moment that you believed to be a fleeting moment of lust. You stuck all these feelings into Anita's box, never to be thought of again. Until one day, that glass of wine, or 6…or that Toni Braxton song rips the lid off Anita's box, and all those feelings attack you at once.
There is a way to make sure this never happens. The only way to prevent a sneak attack from the rapture is to deal with feelings head on. Yes, we will all be caught up in some kind of rapture or another at some point, it's human nature. But when you deal with those feelings and skip to the next song on Anita's greatest hits you won't have to worry about hiding Anita's box so far away that no one will ever find it to open it back up again.
-Becks
I will go ahead and call this box Anita's box. Yes, Anita Baker, Anita. We all know Aunties Anita is good for a heart wrenching love song sung in an octave that only she can pull off. One of the most known of these songs is "Caught Up In The Rapture." I like to use this phrase as a metaphor for those times you are scrambling and dealing with feelings that seemingly come from no where. But the rapture does not descend upon us like a swarm of locusts when we least expect it. It slowly builds up on us.
That dude you met that you weren't worried about until he stopped worrying about you. Or that person that never quite goes away. Or that moment that you believed to be a fleeting moment of lust. You stuck all these feelings into Anita's box, never to be thought of again. Until one day, that glass of wine, or 6…or that Toni Braxton song rips the lid off Anita's box, and all those feelings attack you at once.
There is a way to make sure this never happens. The only way to prevent a sneak attack from the rapture is to deal with feelings head on. Yes, we will all be caught up in some kind of rapture or another at some point, it's human nature. But when you deal with those feelings and skip to the next song on Anita's greatest hits you won't have to worry about hiding Anita's box so far away that no one will ever find it to open it back up again.
-Becks
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