Women I Hail!

I was online, just browsing (well researching cultural relativism- don’t ask- long story…) and my eyes caught the name Wangari Maathai so of course I had to ‘google’ her.  As I read about her, I started crying, her story is not a sad one- not all- she was the first African woman to win the Nobel Prize. Reading about her made me think about women… I discovered that I have never really given them the credit due to them

Honestly, despite the fact that I am one- a woman (so I’m told sha) I have never really understood them, I think it is because I tend to focus on the crazy things they do… (covers face)… They do very very strange things!!!

I don’t even know where to start- about women- do I start from Mary (Mother of Jesus) who witnessed her son’s horrific  death (Messiah or no Messiah it must have taken all her strength!);  or should I start from those who stare society right in the face and do what is right for them;  or those who give up all in the name of ‘love’; or those who spend all their time praying to (an unseen) God 24 hours a day not for themselves but for those around them.

I can’t write eloquently about what I don’t fully understand… what I do know is this- I will never underestimate any woman again- I will never be insensitive to any woman’s plight again (no matter how unreasonable I think they are being, {wearing my trainers ready to run}) !!! From now I will concentrate on the strength women possess, that strength to just carry on no matter what- that strength to drop any unnecessary load- that strength to keep dragging loads that mere mortals would have discarded- that strength to stare the world in the face, head held high.

I am not ashamed of who I am, I have never been, I am Funmi Kekere Omo Babafunmi  Mama Miracle (aka Tinyfunmi ).  I am not ashamed of my bad habits; they make me interesting or of my good habits they keep me human. Finally, at 16,21,3* (I forgot my real age) I am confident enough to say I am a woman, but only because that is the only way I can be brave enough to do all that I must do and reclaim all those things that are rightfully mine.

Happy Birthday to me… Thanks to all the great women around me and not forgetting all the men too.