The thriving journey of a woman - excerpt from my upcoming book "Love Intrigued"

Hi friends,

So, I've engaged on a  journey of writing a book; something I've been putting off for some time. So I thought I'd share with you a small excerpt from the book, which is pretty much work in progress. So yeah, please let me know your thoughts.

With love,
Lady B

The thriving journey of a woman

 

Life is a journey. For a man, it is a journey towards success, triumph and building a legacy. For many women, it's a journey to finding one's own and fulfilment a journey towards womanhood. For a black woman - it's a journey to not only womanhood, but to thriving. A journey of womanhood entails, discovering what womanhood is, defining what it means to you, and learning to embrace the gift that is womanhood. It is a gift because it is not just a natural phenomenon, nor inherent. It is more than gender, and genitalia. But rather the innate abilities that come with being a woman. Most of which we do not know, some we don’t even acknowledge, while others we conveniently remember during heightened feminist moments. But what is a woman? Who is woman? Her worth, contribution and being cannot be defined in the simplistic analogy of opposites, nor natural abilities that come with her genitalia. But she is a daughter, a sister, a mother, an aunt, a grandmother, a woman whose responsibility is more towards others than herself.

 

And in the journey towards womanhood; she loves, laughs, hurts, learns and grows. It's a journey she only can travel for herself. Even though she has people that travel along with her ; in the end; its journey she mostly travels on her own. It's the journey within.