It's a Wrap

While filming the reality show of my life, I came to the sudden realization that I had been nothing more than a two bit character and other people behind the scenes had been pulling the strings.

Telling me how I should move.
Telling me what I should or shouldn't say.
Placing me in situations I wouldn't normally find myself in just to get a reaction.

Making me feel like my input wasn't good enough and I should go with their ideas instead.

One day I woke up and decided not to show up to set. 

I made the important decision to take things into my own hands; it was my life after all.

Who were they anyway?

They couldn't tell my story like I could so I took control back.

I pulled out my selfie stick and documented my life MY way and on MY terms.

Speaking up and saying "no" when others got accustomed to me always saying "yes" was everything. The looks on their faces when they found out "no" was a complete sentence was amazing.

Realizing that it was okay for me to hit reset on my life as many times as necessary was a game changer. 

I don't have to start one path and stick to just that one if it does nothing for me. I have the freedom to start over again and again until I've found the way that's right for me.

Drowning out the noise and criticism of the naysayers and tuning into the bomb intuition placed within was the secret they tried to keep from me all along. They knew that if I listened to self, they could no longer string me along with their foolish plans for me.

When I got rid of the negativity around me and stopped following their script, I realized I was more than just a character they could have around to make themselves feel better.

I was a box office smash and would carry myself as such.

In the words of my good sis, Fantasia, "I'm doing me this time around."

...and it feels good.