Journey of Young Charli
You started loving yourself more when you begin smiling
Crooked smiles are crooked smiles but they bring you so much personality
Not everything in this world will be straight
Not everything in your world is straight and that's okay because you’ve learn to smile through the sh*t that caught you left field
Like that time those people came for you
Like that time he didn’t come for you
Like that time you stopped relying on others validating you
Like that time you stopped relying on others to support you
Like that time you stopped relying on man and started to rely on God
You learned that ratchett smiles need just as much love as pure ones
You learned that the “purest people” are the “most tainted”, and the “most tainted” have the most clarity”
You learned that people will fault you for their
own problems
You learned that the simplest sorrys are not so simple when people can't understand their wrongs and you my dear are not in the line of work to correct them.
You started to love yourself more when you stopped fake smiling.
Pretending. Over extending. Over analyzing what makes YOU unique?
The answer is simple my fellow crab. No-one can do you as good as you do you and this is not a topic up for a challenge.
It's not about your ASSets as much as you assess your wins baby girl and those losses are just as strengthening and impactful.
You started to love yourself more when you stopped smiling
Not everything is peaches and cream
Your sensitive ass needs to release and there is nothing wrong in NOT being whole
You started loving yourself more
This is all I ever asked for the girl who got picked on for her smile, who was drilled miles for her chocolate crown, for the naps, for the weight, for when nothing was good enough to them You loved yourself harder to push yourself through.
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Charlisa Goodlet: A Rochester, NY native and Conscious Creative. A student of life and lover of Hip-Hop Heritage she enjoys learning about the complexities of Blackness and the progression of communities of color in America and beyond. Currently, she writes at Broke Black Bougie and Charlisa Charli on topics surrounding freedom, Black womanhood, and conscious issues. In her spare time, you can catch her rewatching reruns of "A Different world" and "Living Single" trapping herself in 90s culture."
Instagram: @charlisacharli