Welcome back to another episode of No Whining Wednesday! Today, you cannot whine, criticize, or complain.
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I am aware there was no NWW episode last week. It is because I did not have a word to give. And I would rather say nothing than to speak just for the sake of speaking. In the words of Obbie West, the poet, “speaking just for the sake of speaking is the same as being silent.”
I almost didn’t post anything today either.
But as I thought about this series, why I created it, and why its existence is necessary, forcing things came to my mind.
We know we cannot force things to happen, but we try to anyway. It is like we are fascinated by the chase. When we cannot get what we want when we want it, we whine and complain because we feel we failed to make it happen.
We stress ourselves out over things we cannot control. We become upset that we cannot force it as much as we try.
It is not until we let go that things happen as they were always intended to. Ever noticed that it starts to move as soon as you forget about something?
Think about misplacing something. It can literally be right in your face as you tear the house apart. Only when you calm down, relax, and focus on something else that you see that thing sitting on the table.
You think, “How in the world did I miss this? I’ve looked at that table four times!”
Or did you?
You looked at the table, but did you see what was on it?
People are fascinated by my locs. They want to know what products I use, what my routine is, and how in the heck I got my hair to grow down my back.
These conversations are fun, especially for women. We get to giggle and be girly about products and things.
But the only honest answer to this question is nothing. I don’t do anything to my hair.
Of course, I wash it, oil it, and all that good stuff, but for the most part, I leave it alone, and it grows wildly.
Sometimes, you just need to leave that situation alone. Don’t complain about it, don’t stress about it. Don’t even think about it. Stop trying to force the revelations to come. What will be, will be.
So let it be.
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