Just Thinking

I was lost. I knew I was lost. The darkness around me felt like a physical presence wrapping itself around me, enveloping me and pulling me downwards. My body seemed to melt into it. I tentatively reached out my hands hoping to connect with a surface or an object.. anything really but there was nothing and nothingness. I felt like I was falling but not quite. My head felt fuzzy, my legs felt like air and I could not feel myself breathe. I tried to cast my mind back, to try to mentally retrace my steps, how did I get here? What happened? Was I dead? Is this what death felt like? Should I be "walking into the light?" or worse still, why was there no light? Was I in hell or on my way to hell? I was not quite sure, the darkness made it difficult to think, to focus on one thought long enough to make sense of it or to remember anything before. My thoughts seemed to float in and out of my mind like children playing tag. I let myself slide and stopped trying to prevent th...

I will start this post my saying up until now, I never seriously considered myself a feminist and in a lot of ways I still don’t. I am however a strong believer in the “strengths of the sexes” and the different and wonderful ways we can leverage our strengths as men and women to build synergy and balanced social systems. Even at that, a lot of times I still think I could be a little too traditional but then again, I find that in life, it is all about balance. That said, I will move unto the meat of my post. The idea for this post literally popped into my head yesterday after a long day and I felt I had to write this down before I forgot about it. I doubt it will be a long post as the message is all in the title but allow me to elucidate. I hear and read a lot of what I call rants about female inequality in the work place (don’t burn me at the stake just yet), some very well founded and very true. It is actually a fact that women face a lot more blockers profes...

I appreciate logic and reason, but when life throws at you stuff that makes you feel like you have been sucker punched, there is nothing left for you but to Pray, Hope and Wait while God does the rest.