With all the craziness dominating our focus, this beautiful occurred. Story of a girl who stayed focus and didn’t settle for anyone who just popped up. She pursued her dreams with no detours, no time offs and no distractions. Young, black, female in a society that limits, defines and predestined base on age, race and gender. She defined herself and proved wrong the limiting beliefs of society.
While in College she listened to R&B star Kenny Lattimore’s music, we all did. She never knew then she was listening to her husband to-be, especially when-we all did, heard that Kenny married R&B singer star Shanté. She, like every female went about our normal lives because R&B superstar lives are in a different world as ours, right? Wrong. When your steps of staying true to your passions exist, crossed paths will occur if your callings align.
Love this story. Stay loyal to your dreams. Settle for nothing. Love yourself & your space. Keep your standards high. Don’t listen to friends. Don’t lower to match their standards for themselves. They can’t see yours because of where they are. They will have you believe that theirs is practical. Get a different circle of friends who see with your optics. Don’t listen to doubts. Shatter the programming that Society has designed for you. The right person IS there.
I wish I had these words said to me and lived out in front of me. I made errors in judgment twice as results of having friends who I regarded as looking out for my best interest. I didn’t have Faith & Conviction lived out in and around me. I doubted my gutt & listened to “other points of view”, lessons learnt will never repeated.
This story has 2 soft spots. One, her name Faith is the name I had for my daughter. Two, her focus I had right, she kept going, I made a right, which ended up being a wrong. My lessons learned the hard way is to follow your dreams, follow your gutt (those with opinions and feedbacks wouldn’t live the consequences, you will), stay loyal to the standards you set, they are not too high, they are what you deserve, they are what you can attain, anything lower is not your best and living below your best never ends well.
I wish Faith & Kenny both a long, healthy, blended, adventurous, loving, loyal, integral, respectful marriage. May both hold true to their foundation and keep the foxes out of their garden.🌹
For those like me who took detour(s), the good news is that you will get chances to turn things around. Even though you lost ground and time, the lessons learnt will accelerate where you are with the time you have left.
Your calling & purpose still has your name on it. Your gift is yours. You have more of an unapologetic conviction walk moving towards it…Lady O💜❤🙏🏽 Here to serve. #StillSmiling #GraceAndEase #LEASTinc #LadyO #OAKNetwork #OAKkidsTV