I'm increasingly becoming more aware of the boundaries and limitations the people before me have established. And I'm becoming more and more annoyed of these boundaries.
One such boundary is about skin colours.
I've always been really insecure of my skin colour...since I'm brown in a world where paler skin coloured people are almost worshiped while darker people are seen as untrustworthy sketchy people.
I've been really self-conscious about my colour as a kid. Elders would discuss how tan I'd get playing in the sun. So? I stopped. Used all the fairness creams....used an umbrella as shield from the fierce sun and wanted to get fairer...never satisfied with the results I got.
Overtime I gave up this high standard because it lacked sense to try so hard for something that's not meant to happen. Especially since what I was trying to change was part of who I am.
Few months back I learnt about how the exposure of sunlight causes human skin to create a sort of defense against what could potentially cause harm to the body.
So if you're light or dark skinned.....it's a way you and your ancestors survived the problems that could arise with differences in the sun exposure in your region.
I really don't understand people who talk nonsense about people with darker skin tones. It's so immature and irrational.
I find it immature when people make fun of others for who they are and what they like.
A few years after I got over my obsession about making my skin fairer...I found to see that the world was more beautiful when I noticed and saw all the colours. I wasn't only focusing my attention on one specific colour, because now that I really see...I find everything beautiful.
So ask yourself today...
Who's making me see the world in black and white?
Who's stopping me to see all the wonderful colours in between?
Because I like the variety of beauty I see when I look at everyone.....because everyone's beautiful.
Everyone's beautiful in their own colour.
(Theme will be continued in the next post)
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