Bethann Hardison

Bethann Hardison Instagram – Reflecting on my time on earth and its results. As we grow, we learn, we experience and we respond to what life has offered. If you are full on in time, “fully grown”, how you see things now, oppose to how you might have seen them as a teenager or young adult differs. Experience, time, and wisdom, seems to be the defining factors. Surely for me, I recognize the patience I no longer have that I would have had ease to accept or perhaps even allow prior.
In my early life I saw decency in every thing, would explain the actions of others to an acceptable place. Help other observers to try to see the good in the action of a scoundrel. I gained the nickname “mother Theresa” and “mayonnaise”. This being the Holy month of Ramadan it gifts you the opportunity to be introspective, this is the last week of that month. And if nothing more I want to recognize my time on earth and where I am today. To recognize how the action of others, not necessarily pointed at me, can offend me, to a place I lose respect.
I need not tell them, I can live with it, realizing I don’t “like it or them”. My entire young life, I liked everyone. Even when I started my model agency in the 80’s I just dodged the emotions based on the not cool things that were done to challenge me or hurt my success. I didn’t turn the other cheek, I knew the mission and while being judged had no time to fixate. Most people would have had much to say. I was the target, I couldn’t.
Even then I couldn’t judge or be angry it was more like surfing a wave.
All to say the life now has found an observing eye and a voice to match.
I want all who I love to be a certain way and those I don’t to be out of the way. Easy to want but it’s not up to me, unless you change your neighborhood, your environment your life and relationships. There lies the difference between youth and maturity. In your youth it’s not the choice to make. In maturity you can afford to make these decisions and accept the consequences of less being more. You have lived a life, who fits, stays. But somehow you are that same youth with the blessing of age, fortunate to have found your tribe.
Queen you are, Teen you be. | Posted on 19/May/2020 00:54:15