“๐๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ธ๐ช๐ญ๐ญ ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฌ๐ฆ ๐ช๐ต ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ถ๐ด๐ต๐ณ๐บ…”
The exact words that a man said to me….
Just days before I packed my Mazda Precidia to move across Canada ๐จ๐ฆ to follow a dream.
… I was 19.
โ ๏ธ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ด๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฐ ๐ช๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ด๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ช๐ณ ๐ต๐ฐ๐น๐ช๐ค ๐ง๐ฆ๐ข๐ณ๐ด ๐ถ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ. โ ๏ธ
If I allowed his patriarchal truth become my own, life would look and feel sooooo damn different today.
But – ๐ ๐ป๐ฒ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐ณ๐ผ๐ฟ๐ด๐ผ๐ ๐๐ต๐ถ๐ ๐๐ฒ๐ป๐๐ถ๐บ๐ฒ๐ป๐. It fuelled me for the next decade of my career.
(I guess Angels can come disguised as assholes sometimes ๐๐)
โ ๏ธ To the womxn with ambition…
Don’t ever let a person’s reality – or failed attempt at success, impact your destiny.
They live in an expired era – and we just don’t play in that dimension ๐๐ฅ