Gal Pal POst Vol 3 Edition 3

Gal Pal PostVolume 3 Edition 3
Becoming Your Own Wonder Woman

Quote of the Week
"Don't ever be someone's slogan when you are poetry."

Inner Diva Speak
How can a gal have courage under fire?
Many times I have had gal pals ask me about how am I so brave. I never really thought of myself as brave. I believe that life experience has made me bold. To use the discipline of acting out on courage even though that apparent characteristic was something I did not have at that time. All this I thought about as gal pal Danielle and I were at this novelty shop where all this cool superhero stuff was being sold. "It is the summit of courage that demonstrates how willing we are to grow and stretch ourselves to better than we were yesterday. Paula Giddings wrote, "I am old enough to know that victory is often a thing deferred, and rarely at the summit of courage. What is at the summit of courage, I think, is freedom. The freedom that comes with the knowledge that no earthly thing can break you.

"If the little rock nine were not courageous then segregation would still be the way Arkansas does business. If Charlie Brown lacked the courage to get back up every time Lucy took the football away he would have never been ready to go to Paris in Bon Voyage! Charlie Brown! (ha ha) With that said I do think that there is a formula for becoming your own superhero. You gotta have the courage to become a better person. Never be content with who you are, remember that there is always room for improvement at some level of your personhood. You gotta have the courage to believe in a dream. Learn to sow your own seeds of contemplation. You gotta have the courage to start over again. If at first you don't succeed...try, try again. And when you operate as a hero remember that; a hero forgives, a hero explores, and a hero uncovers the truth.

Life is more than just about you, and any hero with super powers doesn't just sit on their gifts, they share them and give back to other people, even those who seemingly don't deserve it.There are tons of examples of women and people who have become heroes or sheroes in their own rite. But I challenge all of you to define that for yourself and learn to be your own wonder woman. She SpeaksOne of my favorite shows for like a hot minute was the Nanny. I really like Fran Drescher even when she did the Old Navy commercials. I read an article recently that she wrote about how she got over herself. I think that she spoke a lot of wisdom and so I hope that her wisdom shines through these long series of quotes that I share with you all.

"maybe because I was sick-and because old habits die hard- I turned our relationship into a hero-worship thing. If I was offered a job that would take me away from him to New York for six month, I turned it down. I didn't want to make plans with my girlfriends unless I knew that he had plans with his guy friends. The relationship was fast becoming unhealthy-he was miserable and he was making me miserable, too.

At last I said, 'I don't know what your problem is. I'm not making any demands on you." He said, 'maybe we should just end it now.' First I felt shock-then devastation. It felt more like an amputation than a break up. A week later I went to a celebrity tennis tournament in Florida and met a guy who was performing in a band. I was completely attracted to him and thought, 'this isn't going to be so hard.' Well, that guy turned out to be married and almost two years later I still haven't met any one with the qualities of my ex-boyfriend., though God knows, I've tried.

It hasn't been easy. Ultimately I've had to learn to be happy with myself. I used to have terrible anxiety about growing old alone or getting sick again and not having someone to be there for me. Now I understand that a healthy relationship is two people living separate lives together. In the meantime I am living my life fully. I've grown more in the two years since my boyfriend and I split than I did during the time that we were together. And I plan to keep growing, so I don't make the same mistakes the next go around."

That was great and deep.

Keep it real wonder women and go bucks!!!!!!!!!