Hey y'all!! This week was a real eye opener for me. Have you ever had that moment when you seriously thought about your potential, gifts and talents? These things consist of who we are. If you are religious, we know the as gifts from God that he wants us to grow to help us be happy, if you’re not religious these things still make you, you. But what roles do these gifts they play in your life or even in society? Today I wanted to focus on writing about how who we are, and who we choose to be, affects every aspect of the person that you will become.

I will start with a very controversial statement, I feel that the gender you are born with plays a HUGE part of who YOU are. Many people believe they can just change and become what they want to be or what they think will make them happy. Some people will change so much about themselves in a sper of a moment based off feelings, ideas or peers. Now, I’m not talking about making goals to being a kinder person or being more active in their family life etc., I’m talking about people who are wanting to change the things about them that are more permanent such as gender, facial structure, height, body size (shape), skin color, or ethnicity. They want to change the things that make them who they are instead of ACCEPTING what makes them who they are. If a girl is more of a tom boy and enjoys doing more masculine things she can embrace those preferences as well as be ok with who she is as a woman. There is no mistake, there was no accident that you were born a male or female (whether you are religious or not), your natural body is apart of who you are. And most importantly, your role as a male or female both equally play a big role in society and impacts many people’s lives, mainly your future family.  

Men and Woman are both equal but different. It’s just how things are so we can have a more balanced world. Could you imagine if everyone was the same, what would the world be like? Probably boring, dull and weak because there is no diversity to make the weak things about it strong. Too many people focus on how men are either better than women or women are better than men. It seems to be a power struggle between the two, maybe we should start focusing on and looking at things with a more “we need each other” attitude and things would start getting better? I don’t know but that is definitely my thoughts! Maybe if there was a focus on both genders being equal but acknowledging their difference, men and women would feel the need to make up some kind of difference. The truth is women are just generally better at things that men can’t do and vice versa. Men and Women are also generally different from the very beginning, since infancy.  Boys prefer to ruff house, fight, and building things and while girls focus more building relationships, playing with dolls and nurturing things. Together men and women can really make a great team in balancing each other out.

I feel that there is truly nothing wrong with accepting who you are as a male or female. And most importantly so important to embrace the things about you that make you you. Whether you like them or not or want to change them. We need to all love ourselves enough to accept the characteristics that we have been given and grow them to their fullest potential. And is what makes us all different and unique.