Trend.....The popular taste at a given time; Turn sharply; change direction abruptly
Change.....Make different; cause a transformation; Remove or replace the coverings of; An event that occurs when something passes from one state or phase to another
Now I've always considered a trend like changing styles of clothing, vehicles, shoes, etc....but on the other hand to make a change, in my opinion, is to move a way from a particular thing, scene, way, etc into another direction or way.
So, in saying this, personally to say that a person's choice to go to their own "natural state of hair" would have to be a change not a trend. Even it one tranverted back to a relaxed stated, it is still a change, based on choice or opinion. Maybe there are some people who say....Oh I like the way natural looks...I want to do that or try it, not knowing each individuals purpose or reason for this transformation or change, so maybe I'm only thinking personally here.
To me the "change" to My God given natural state, was because if I'm gonna go an purchase kinky, natural looking, African looking hair, to cover a relaxed hair.....kinda dawned on me as ridiculous, when I was born with what I considered beautiful......wear my own. So, when I want to do something....i have my mind made up...i intend to do it.
I did not want to wait on two differnt textures of hair to grow out....I wanted to embrace what I was born with.......BC (Big Chop) it is.......Ofcourse, my husband still had the mental state that straight, long hair is beautiful and was impressed by the decision, but respected my decision.....and so here I am two years later natural and loving it.....I have not intention of ever going back to a relaxed state...this is my personal choice....."change"...not a trend, because my choice when deeper than seeing, liking and changing a style.....you don't chop off your hair for a trend......It was a deep, heart-felt decision,, in which I have not regrets.....I feel My Creator made us all in various likes and ways and Afrikans/Blacks were made in the beauty that was intended.....we were just brain-washed that our hair is nappy.....unacceptable in society....etc.....How in the world do you brain-wash an entire race that what they were born with is "unacceptable".......How? that what grows from the roots of your head from birth, is unacceptable and not good enough.....and it has been eaten like ripe fruit and digested for centuries.......Unbelievable right? So digested that it has become and unconscious though....."normal" to relax your hair and children, before they even know what it is.....It's ok.....I'm not judging....I did it too....it's what I was taught....to burn the crap out of my daughters head, to straighten her kinks......hmmmmm.......
When I chopped my hair off....my daughter said "Why do I have to have that stuff in my head to burn my head and you don't"......I looked at her and I said.....you don't......I explained all of the above and she has been natural for 2 years and she will tell anyone the same things that I have stated with confidence.....Thank God/dess I never put my baby girl through it!!
I felt I should be able to wake up comb/style my hair just as I was born with it, like any other race, without feeling the need to look like them. I love me just the way God made me. Some of us were not even given the choice to relax, it was made for us, by our parents, because of a mental slavery.....To them straight, relaxed hair was seen as beautiful....sure it is...if thats what God gave you, but I don't feel the need to look like someone else to see the beauty in myself....my only regret is that I hid the true me inside for so long, that I robbed myself this taste of joy and freedom for to long......I am grateful for the knowledge before I allowed my girls to go through the same experiences of damage, breakage, cutting, relaxing and the cycle through life over and over of self- abuse and self-hatred.......
I can't say that they won't decide to make changes when the become adults, but I can know that I have instilled self love in them and that they will know that they are Beautifully Created, just the way they are........No Trends....Just Changes for the Best....Conscious Knowledge of Self...... : )
And they will know that if any man they meet wants long, straight hair and tries to convince them they are any less beautiful than they were created..... they better go buy it and wear it their damn selves.....lol
Because We Were Crowned By Birth!!!!!!
Guide to my destination,
Leading Mighty Whirlwind,
Spirals of Spiritual Wisdom present a tornado,
Ready to take on all!
Kinky,
Full of strength and force!
My frizzy,
My curly bunch of tightness
Like mini twisters,
going left,
going right,
Complex and swift led
…..and underneath- wavy funnels of black frizzies,
The drive of My Sistahncestors
It is the steering wheel’s control of My future,
A flashlight that guides the Earth’s magnificence,
Transmitted on from ancient memories,
A mass of inherited twisted knowledge,
Yet Spiritual channeled to be known.
Separating into tiny, spring-like, corkscrew shaped,
Thick,
Bushy,
Wooly mass, carried from antediluvian Goddess,
Perfectly, Master-made brown and black beauts.
My crown
The rise of My Fullness,
A continuously expanding growth…..
Outward-
Upwards-
Because, it guards My Goddess
My Crown
….crowns a Mighty Feminine Cocoa Queen…..
Confusion to the enemies,
Connection to My Sistah Goddess……protected
Crowned by Birth!
© LeTisha.Bowie 9/11/10 “Urth Eagle"
