I just realised it was international Women's Day now.
Women are not here to please men and women are not commodities. They are not dependant on a men. Their purpose is not just to have kids. Women are not decorations for mantelpieces and women are not feeble. Women may be emotional, they may have the ability to give birth, they be made up differently, but that is not to say that women can not. I am lucky to live in a place where the women are treated with better equality than elsewhere. I am happy that I do not get shot for wanting to pursue a career and that I am not told that I cannot drive or aspire and aim because of my gender.
Happy International Women's day.
How has my week been?
Well, let us start from today.
I went to church and I wore a dress. I never usually wear dresses out of my own free will, but I have recently been thinking, I want to take better care of myself. That includes caring about how I look. Whilst I do not agree that wearing skirts, dresses, boots, jewellery and make up defines you as female, I think that it is time that I stop using the excuse that wearing these things make me look ugly.
The church sermon was really beautiful. It would have been more so if I wasn't covertly playing cards with my sister. It was about the Sabbath and how rest is important. How rest is really essential. Valerie, the priest said we are human beings, not human doings and that we need time just being.
Saturday was perfect. Beautiful weather for this time of year, especially as the previous weeks have been heavy laden with dollops of rain and gushes of wind,
I thought, you know what? I am not going library today. I am not revising. I am not stressing myself out, even though I ought too because I have mocks the next week. I thought momentarily, I am not going to be my typical, head in the books, stressed out revising self. I am going to have fun. That is what I did. We called it a family outing, when really, half my family was missing and we were accompanied by my best friend and one of my sisters boy friend. We went Gunnersbury Park and unfortunately, they followed my instructions and we got lost.
The bus journey was fun. We played 21 dares and one of mines was to lie on the floor where people could see me.
We had a picnic in the park and played around. Just as we were about to leave, we bumped into my old French teacher. I also bumped into my old English teacher / head of year. When I say bumped into, I mean, sort of saw her on the bus and waved.
On Friday I sat next to on the bus and talked to the guy I had a crush on and it was quite nice because all this time I thought he was avoiding me because he never talks to me, but then he said he likes people like me who talk a lot. I was so happy and it was a horrible feeling feeling so happy because of a guy.
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