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🌥 | Light me up

🎧Ingrid Michealson- Light me up



Ever looked up at the stars and wondered how they're just magically there...

.... how they effortlessly radiate light to us every dark night?...
...Ever stared at the wide sea and wondered how these waves periodically fall and rise, rushing on?....

So many thoughts and just one goal. To seemingly survive if not live, in this roller-coaster called life.

Shenelle Tiyumba Walker, a regular girl who knew her life hit "self destruct mode" and couldn't never be fixed. Destruction! I'm not talking damage that happens within a day or two, but damage that elapses over months and years, Damage that has high consistency levels, Damage that ends up creating deep scars and concealed agony.

Lest I forget! I told you long enough to pass for a synopsis that nothing was more than enough to Tame a wild heart than chilly winds from the Harmattan, a withered sheanut tree,a Calabash, a thatched mudhouse a dry Rocky land and indeed a  WILD SAVANNAH.

But...

What I didn't say was how this was going to happen. Yes! Of course, of course you need a Timtooni but....

Aside this, you need faith, hope and a heart that is full of patience to overcome.

What am I driving at? Simple!
Life Sucks! Life is a summation of so many downs than ups. Trust me, you have no idea what failures awaits.

I'm sure at this point youd nod in agreement when I say Life is unfair.
Well,
The real truth is life, life is pretty much fair. Life is simply how you make it.

Looking back at the Shenelle seven years ago, I see a girl that just received a powerful blow from life's giant fists amd did t know where to turn to. A girl that had the least clue what the world "next" entailed.

True! When Oprah said life happens for you and not to you.
We all have our unique stories to tell, perhaps with unique pen inks!....lol. I mean life is to those who open their arms to receive. 

This badboy life isn't wholly bad after all.

It took seven years to wrap my head around it all. Simply put it took seven years to fully get it.

Now, I can stand up high and badly say all of this, because as the the star that I am I needed to be lighted up. I need to burn! I needed combustion with all those gases so that you could have light.

That's right. That is exactly what I did to the downs...I burnt them
And the pain....I burnt them
And the uncertainty, I burnt them
And the tears, I burnt them
And the night mares, I burnt them
And the anxieties, I burnt them

I burnt it all to unveil the star within.

Look er, we've all got messed up lives, but how we rise is what makes the difference.

In all things choose to be the phoenix!

Who'd I've thought that I'd ever survive being a Tiyumba, or being a Chimsi and now gathering momentum to be an Andani! But that's the whole point "Survival". When life realizes you're trying to survive I bet you it would raise over to you a helping hand over. Trust me



With my lamp lighted and raised absolutely  high I'm marking the beginning of SURVIVAL.
The beginning of life with you Tee, mom, Chichi and Teiya.
I love you all, and I want to Thank you so much for your support and holding me up through it all.

What better way Ingrid put it than to tell us to light ourselves up.

We are Stars. Stars who have Scars but through it all we must promise to always Burn it all.

Always remeber Light must be shed to brighten the gloom.