Two people walk out of a building and into a story

The day my parents walked out of Mowbray Maternity. That was my birthday. That was a start of a new life for them. This meant new beginnings for all of us, including the rest of my family members – so they thought. However, they had not planned. This was a problem for them.

Seeing this beautiful girl in their arm just made everything feel like a fairy tail. Everything was just perfect and they did not have a care in the world, but for ME – little did they know. A day came when reality struck them. Life was hard and they were still recovering and adjusting to the post apartheid era. They had to think of ways to raise this young baby they had brought into this world. It was all a big story.

They had to work harder and bring back money to raise me. They had to think of the perfect ways to enforce discipline on me as I grew older. Expenses became higher; I had to be enrolled to a school, they had to buy textbooks and had to pay for me to get to school. This was all new to them because once again they did not plan.

Parenthood is a mission and a life changing journey. One needs to take into consideration all of the factors involved in raising a child. Life does not become the same again – in fact it can become a nightmare of a fairytale. People need to plan and not live for today’s perfections and ignore what the rest the story of life holds.

My inner and outer self confident

Self-confidence is all about you and yourself. You create an image of who you see in yourself, who you are and where you see yourself in the future. Thus the only person that should control how you feel about yourself is you!

In high school I never really believed in my capabilities, so much that when I was congratulated for an achievement, I would disregard it. I compared myself to other, but never acknowledged my own strengths and was never proud of my strong points. It is only when I left high school and found my badges and certificated/ awards – that I never appreciated, that I realized how intelligent I really am.

So many of us wallow around, head down, lacking confidence. A person tends to respond this way when they fear other people gossiping about them. Of you were to hold your head up high while whispers follow you, you’d become even stronger and be perceived as such.

The moment you worry about what is said about you, you’ll end up with a worst-case-scenario character analysis in your head and lying awake at night worrying what others say about you.

I say, shine on! Know yourself, ignore what you think is being said about you and know that for you to have lived through this life someone better be talking about you! It only makes you stronger and confident and it shows that you must be doing something right to be the centre of someone’s attention.

I share my inner and outer self confidence…