To be a Woman today
To be a woman today
Who knows quite what that means.
Pages of our an sectors seem to have clear answers
In Jesus’ time a woman leaned on her husband or son to provide.
Having no other means to live by
Condemned and stoned for being different
In the beginning of our country
A woman was to produce children and teach them each their roles in life
A son must be strong and take the occupation of the father
A daughter to learn to cook and clean
Swiftly changing the meaning behind a woman grows ever more
To care for others, a husband, a child, a friend, parent.
To clean a house that grows and grows
To feed your love ones
To teach other generations
To build a career higher and higher
To increase your knowledge
To give life to another human being
To stay size 0 as long as you can
With perfect hair, eyes, make up
Unable to conform to one of these things
Does this mean you are not truly a woman?
What makes one a woman today?
To each their own must answer this question
To debate and create.
What is a woman in your eyes?
What is a woman in God’s eyes
What is a woman in society’s eyes?
Does what a grandmother
A mother
A sister
A friend
Dictate what makes a woman?
To each their own.
You know recently in a discussion about children’s health, I heard that children crave sweets as a safety mechanism. Poison foods, berries, plants, etc. had kind of a bitter taste to them. Identifying sweet foods therefore saved the lives of primitive people. Current day says avoid the sweets which are a natural craving. Because we have a brain, we can learn to use it in such a way as adapting to the new discoveries in modern health. Intellectually we know that sweets are okay in moderation. We also know that what women are and were expected to be an do are two different things. The world has changed and in order to survive, we must change with it. Again, God gave us a brain. Survival today suggests that there is a two income family for most of us. I don’t mean go out and get a job to prove your womanhood. I mean survive. I do believe that in my case, I would not have survived deep depressive states had I not been out in the world being a part of it. I love my children and my house, and I have everything in life I could ever want. I have them because God gave me the forsight to acheive them and to keep them sacred. I say with the grace of God, adapt to the new world all you woman out there. Embrace what you can and what you can’t. There is always another alternative.
Comment by Vickie — 13. July 2008 @ 15:09