Sunday Sermon - What do I have to be thankful for?

I don't preach religion in my Sunday post, nor am I here to put anyone on blast about their church or beliefs or lack of beliefs. I am here to encourage anyone who may be a bit down of spirit to not give up on themselves or life itself. 

I used to suffer from serious bouts of depression. I stressed about the choices I made in life and the reason why I was stuck in a never ending cycle of poverty and unemployment. I was unlucky at everything  set out to do and kept having set back after set back.
One set of worry and discontentment began to feed on the other and I was to the point that I was upset about how I looked, why I wasn't as pretty or as desirable as other women, why I was single and all other types of insecurities and dramas.

Over the years, I have matured greatly and even though I have much much more to learn and many more changes I aspire to have in my personal life, one thing I have learned to do is STOP concentrating on what I don't have and can't do. 

People will say, there is nothing you can't do - and maybe that is so, but there are some things you cannot do  or achieve right away.
Some people cannot wake up and sing like Billy Ocean and they never will, no matter how hard they try. They will spend years and thousands on voice training only to be angry and upset with the world, with God, with themselves of any other higher power for NOT giving them the ability to woo crowds with a beautiful voice.

So STUCK we become on what we are NOT doing, we forget the things we CAN DO and that we DO well. The little talents and gifts that each of us have been blessed with and developed as we age.
There are many among us who need simply smile and the entire room is filled with a warmth.

STOP focusing on what is out of reach today, what is "too difficult" what is "impossible". STOP comparing yourselves to someone with "more money",  a "better family", "a loving partner", "better looks". REMEMBER all these things are from your point of view on the outside looking in. Each of us have our own battles to face, and while you may be envious of something someone else has, they may be envious of something YOU posses, be it a talent, business or lifestyle.

THINK about the good qualities YOU posses today. the good things YOU have accomplished. The friends and family who love YOU for the person you are - flaws and all.
And when you think of these things no matter how silly or simple or small...( you may be good at getting stains out of white clothes, YES, that is a skill, believe it!) BE THANKFUL for that ability. BE THANKFUL for the people, places and situations that make you smile, laugh or be inspired or at peace.

As you begin to take stock of these things, some of the things that you do not posses won't seem nearly as important, and you may also find renewed energy to get out there with the good things YOU have and make the the impossible POSSIBLE.

Have a great week! And REMEMBER..

Sex Sells Overload

I KNOW I am going to get BLASTED for this post, but I don't care.
The makers of the poster I have displayed here obviously don't care what I think about their poster, so I should not care what they think about my post.
If the theory "sex sells" is still (obviously) in effect, I think we have long gone into sex sells overload. 
I can no longer recall the last time I saw a poster for a show or party that did NOT have a half naked woman on it - and though I do not see many of these such posters and fliers because I do not partake in any of these cruises, fetes and such other events, except on some day some strange ill ind blows, THIS poster took the cake for me.

IS THIS what it takes to get people to come to a cruise? A woman that looks like she is wearing no bottom, another with her leg up high enough for you to see up her middle and another with her breast brazenly exposed for a PUBLIC flier?

Sure! No one cares what kids see or do not see in this country  ( and the world) anymore. Hang these posters, and the Banks girl Calenders and all the half naked women of the world in the supermarkets and barber shops and corner shops where your sons and daughters go and stand and stare at what has now become the STANDARD for our society.

WILL anyone at the cruise be topless? Is this a topless cruise? So why is the woman here topless? And why could this, even if it WAS a topless cruise not be more tastefully done? 
Is THIS what it takes to make people come up out of their eighty five dollars?

Look at the first headline - Bear Wutless Activities Promotions. That would explain this tasteless promo, no doubt. But have we fallen so far in morale that we depend solely on sex and slackness to sell or promote every single Bajan event? 

Now tell me this what does the B.W.A stand for? For if it indeed represents any organisation starting with Barbados I am doubly upset. Yes, yes! We are all adults here, I have seen more than a breast or two in my lifetime and things I should probably have never seen, but this tells me we have reached the highest level of lazy. Just slap some half naked girls on a color background and Viola! A poster!

I really wish we could step it up in this country. But that might be too big of a wish to be granted.