The first day I set my eyes on her, I was astonished at her eloquence and bewildered by the authenticity of her expression. Her words felt like it came deep down from the inside, devoid of pretence and not just the normal recitation of the words written and memorized to say out to those willing to hear.
It was my utmost pleasure when she joined my group as the facilitator of my group for the break out session we had. Wow! Those were my words.
As time went on, she became a friend and a sister.
By the way, I always thought she had it all together is that she was always well composed, smiling and ready to counsel and advice anyone at any time she was called upon to. Even if she wasn’t called, she’ll still try to help.
As our journey went on as friends, I got to find out the worst; some people would think.
On that fateful day, with her beautiful peach coloured nails, I admired so much, the smoothness of her hands and fingers, the green dress I was looking forward to going and seize and the Ghana braids she had on that made her look flawless, she mentioned: “I am thirty-three years”.
In my mind, I was like, “what! What kind of early evening joke is this at this time of the year?” I said to her that she was joking because sincerely, I felt she was just pulling my legs. The grin that came on her face was a crucial answer to my impending question. Dumbfounded I was, I must say.
Learning of her past, I found out she wasn’t always this bold, courageous and daunting. She actually was the total horrible opposite of who I met a few months back.
She was timid, called a liability by everyone she came across, a people pleaser (we all know we can’t please everyone), was ridiculed by mothers as they told their daughters to stay far off from her.
That’s not all. When she started getting a grip of herself and found a boy that loved her for who she was and saw the best in her, he died and that became a depressing moment for her but gave her a cause to have a direction in life.
The ill that you come across in life can be used as a bridge to discovering who you really are, what you should be doing and where you should be or want to be.
The barrister who found herself outside the law has been through an ordeal in her short over thirty years here on earth and is ready to share with those approaching thirty and above thirty how to stay woke in this hyper expectant society. The ugly, the bad, and the good have all been tested.
Ibelema Greene of The Greene Company and Adult Toddler is who you should listen to if you have so much on the inside but can’t find a way to express them all, adding to the fact that so much is expected of you from almost everyone you come across and you are approaching or above thirty years.
Living Life Limitless; THE BIG 30’s, happening on the 3rd of November, 2018 you have to attend.
Details of the event are on the picture attached.
©Ala O. Wilcox.
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