Helena Howard

Helena Howard Instagram – I cannot go back in time. This I know. However, sometimes when reflecting about all the things I didn’t know when I was younger, that I do now, i see how little things have truly changed since then, and I think about everyone who looks “different”.
Everyone who has been told that they aren’t “white enough”. Aren’t “black enough”. Aren’t “this enough” or “that enough”. Those who when at a first glance people are so quick to assume WHAT they are, rather than WHO, or even asking.
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Now that I am older, I am more comfortable in the skin I am in. I understand that this colour/pigmentation/melanin DOES NOT DEFINE ME OR ANYONE ELSE.
I know that it is okay to be different to look different to think differently. I know now that life isn’t a contest or a race, unless you make it so.
If you look around, what is being human and alive truly all about? Embracing differences, so that we can be equal? It should be, anyways.
So, to anyone who feels different or has felt different growing up,
THIS IS FOR YOU.
It’s okay to be unlike the others.
It’s okay to look unlike the others.
It’s okay to be YOUrself.
It took me YEARS to figure that out and I am still finding how to stay completely grounded in my sovereignty.
The only way OUT is THROUGH.
🙌✨🙌🙏♥️🙏🤘 | Posted on 07/May/2021 03:08:47