The Little Black Dress and the Poignant Heels

There is a day, or shall I say so many of them where we just feel someone or something is just bringing us down. We dwell and we get so consumed by our thoughts and our perceptions of how things are and how they should rather be. There is only so much time of ours that we spend in the present. The rest goes into dreaming about the present we want to build for ourselves.

Who does not want to be happy? Who does not want to be carefree? We are in search of perfect bodies, to the T perfection in that winged eyeliner. The perfectly made bed, fixing that one centerpiece so it adds that value it is supposed to.

We care for space yet also bonds. We care for drama yet also peace, we care for stability yet also a rollercoaster of a life. We want to settle yet also be free. We always search and ponder what we want but never for what we need.

There are days you would not want to get out of bed or throw on that little black dress or those great heels which not only make you look tall but feel tall. Because sometimes the scars from the heels you wore last night have not faded yet or you have not been able to breathe enough after that little black dress you wore. But really, tell me what happens when you soldier on and dress up again?  For one, you get new scars, which make the old ones fade though. But most importantly, at the same time, you are completely healed somehow because you did not let those scars stop you from going on.

You have pushed your boundaries a little far and beyond.

Went a little overboard on the analogy there, right? But in all truth and only the truth, like oath-taking kind of truth, the one where I cross my heart and hope to die, I want to tell you what so many on the earth say “Our boundaries are our only limit”.

How we are told as kids to brush every day as it is good for our dental hygiene, to bathe as it is good and to eat, and sleep and so on as this is the way of life we know. But what no one tells us is to keep dreaming and to rise after all the falling because it is good for you and your soul.

You owe a lot to yourself, more than you know, you have dealt with so many dilemmas in life, so many heartbreaks. The fight within you between good and evil. You have not just survived, you have sustained. You did it yesterday and you will do it again tomorrow.

Whatever is bothering you today, would not tomorrow. You know why, because you hold that power to rise from the ashes and come back stronger.

Because remember You have not just survived, you have sustained.

YOU GOT THIS. I SWEAR.