Let’s  talk frankly,

When was the last time your heart beat like crazy because you were doing something  you absolutely loved? Oh come on let’s  be honest with each other. It’s  been a while meboa? I get it. Somewhere along the way you had to give up an inch of yourself which has transmuted to that gaping canyon you see right before the cliff of who-you’ve-become and who-you -are;  somewhere along the line, they had to come first: family & lovers. So interests were realigned and the things that made us whole were fragmented and shipped across an expanse_deep into the recesses of our minds where we like to do our reminiscing.

You’ve shipped all the pieces out by now. You are bent,broken_an empty shell of who you once were and that wry smile you plaster on your face like poorly done mascara, that transient hope that it’ll  all be alright once you keep at it it for the next 5 or 14 years _ that’s  called denial sweetheart…it’s  a lie your cognitive machinery has concocted to strangle you and leave you stranded on the island callled “here-but-not-quite-so-there.” You ask how can you escape? Me, how will i know? I’m  probably  the inhabitant of the island next door…

But the good news is, it’s  not too late. Yes, chains are made but chains can be broken too.  If you want to step up and totally change the tempo of the music of your life_to make it all funky and upbeat like  it once was, you can totally do that too.  All it takes is a single resolve, ACTION! Yep, step up(you so totally can. Go you!) ,  recover bit after bit of all the pieces you’ve  had to compromise over the years. Can you hear it? Feel it?  That’s  the fire been restoked in your veins. What,  the sound?  that’s  your aspirations surfing on the tide of your blood! That’s  the ‘you’ you have been hiding! What Esi Kom? Consequences? Well of course, they’ll  be mad…

What, you thought it was going to be like a walk in the park? They’ll  come at you with all they’ve got. They’ll  make you think that going back to Egypt is the best idea_ they’ll package suicide and malice for you and tell you it’s  a virtue and if you’re luckless, you’ll  probably  sanction them too but hold out I say! Because face it,  nobody can do you like you and quite to be honest I’ve  been curious to see what “you” truly look like. Me de3, I’ve  just thrown you a gauntlet.  Will you pick it up or nah? 😌

Vanity Card #3

The amount of insecurities we grapple with can be staggering right? Phew! The Good Lord knows I struggle with sharing a lot of my write-ups because someway somehow I’ve come to believe that my works are not all that “good”_ whatever that means. But starting from now on, I’m deliberately closing my eyes to those insecurities and taking a plunge off the precipice of fear! This post was is a leeeeeeeeeap!

Bisous,
Mikael❤️