Hello everyone… TGIF! How are you all this nice Saturday evening? I enjoyed it watching anime as per usual 😛
Anyway, I apologise for not posting yesterday so I’ll try to making up for it today. Today I am posting a poem I came across and found very interesting and heartfelt. The poem is called ‘A Good Day’ and was written by poet Kait Rokowski. She read this poem during a Button Poetry reading. Continue reading
Hello everyone. I hope you liked my last blog post on Monday. The whole thing was a nice experience.
Today is my Opinionated Wednesdays but I would also like to get your take on the matter regarding women who are liable to be portrayed by the media (and society) as valuable and worthy only when they are married and with children. Earlier today I read an article on the Huffington Post written by Jennifer Aniston on her struggles and issues with the media as a married, childless and female celebrity. Basically, she was tired of the media always claiming she was pregnant for the umpteenth time and having everyone later come to congratulate her when it was false news.
She mentioned that after becoming a celebrity for over a decade and seeing the lengths ‘journalists’ would go to get their ‘news’ (code: gossip), she later came to the realisation how the tabloids portray her in the media and women in general. In the media a woman’s worth is almost always based on her weight, marital status and if she is pregnant or not. Not to mention, this is not good for young girls who grow up thinking they will never be good enough because of these types of messages being sent out by the media and accepted by society.
In my personal opinion this is ridiculous. Why should these young girls go through life thinking they are not good enough if they do not have the right size, weight, and height? Why should these young girls feel that the only way they can feel complete and fulfilled is if they are married and with children? Becoming complete and fulfilled has nothing to do with being married and having children, it has to do with your mindset. Some people end up becoming very miserable later on in life because they bent to the pressures of our society to get married and have kids when they did not want to. Even if they do want kids one of these days it is still their decision to make on when they plan on having them.
Anyway, I personally agree with most of her article, no surprise there, lol. As she mentioned in her article it is a woman’s body to decide what she wants to do with it… Even if she is married it is her decision (and body) to decide if she wants to have a child at that that time or not. It is her decision not society’s or the media. Why does it seem that women cannot be left alone instead of being pressured left, right and centre? What are your thoughts?
Hey y’all! Is everyone doing alright? The weather has been great lately especially considering how indecisiveness Dutch weather can be sometimes. 🙂
Anyway, Thursday evening I attended the performance of my good singer/ songwriter friend, Vangelis Sopamena, in the chillest and most relaxed lounge I have ever been in. The performance was in line with North Sea Round Town Festival that I briefly mentioned in one of my previous blog post (Exploring Rotterdam on a Lazy Sunday Afternoon) that has been taking place for the past few weeks in Rotterdam. Continue reading
Bon Nochi!! (Papiamento -> Good night) I hope you all are doing better than I am. I came down with the cold again and had a rough night where I could not sleep due to my pretty bad sore throat, coughing and throwing up in between little naps. (I think I may also be getting an allergic reaction to some peppers) Hopefully, I will have a better night today. Anyway, that is enough about me… Continue reading
Hey all! As promised here is another blog post from me this week on this nice Wednesday evening. Today is my Opinionated Wednesdays and I wanted to talk about how some kids and teens and (sometimes even young adults) are willing to plot and kill their own parents for whatever reason. I am so baffled by how they can so easily kill their parent because they could not get their way and a lot of the time they have no remorse for their actions when they are caught. It truly saddens me when I read or hear such things. How could you murder your parent that helped to bring you into this world and raised you for most of your life? Continue reading
Hello all. As you may already know I usually do not make it a habit of posting more than three times a week, but this week will be an exception. Today I just wanted to post a few pictures I took while I was taking a stroll through Delft. To be honest, today was the first time I ever stepped a foot in Delft by myself. Even though, Delft is about just a 10 minute train ride away with the fast Intricity train I have had no reason to go to Delft before, and so I never did. I have passed through Delft station many times though when travelling to other cities. Continue reading
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