This is Me Book

This book has been a long time coming. And when I say long, I mean llllooooooooooonnnnnnnnnngggg, I remember the first time, I shared with one of my pastors, He told me that I needed to share this story. Ofcourse I looked at him like he was completely nuts. I was definitely with a capital NO, not sharing this story.

But well, you do know how the story goes…..but in between then and now, has been a plethora of different feelings, fear, shame, wondering if this was the time I will be properly rejected. There has also been joy in those small things like a cream doughnut from Shoprite. Haha! I do love those doughnuts and man, the love shows on my hips..haha

But anyway…yeah it has been a journey,a very long journey with many mountains and hills with me probably screaming and kicking the whole way through but I am here now, sharing my story. It is a story of me embracing myself-the good, the bad and the ugly, getting to a place where I own and accept myself and know to the depths of my soul that This is Me!

This is Me Book

I guess you are wondering why I would launch it on World Aids Day. Seems straightforward enough, right? Well, not everything is as seems. I always hated this day because it reminded me that this was the journey I had to take for the rest of my life and really it was a reality that I was not ready to deal with.

Well now that I have embraced my story, I want to rewrite the narrative of this day…well at least for me. United Nations theme for this year 2021 is End Inequalities, End AIDS, End Pandemics. I used to see this day as the day the world comes together in solidarity for a doomed people., a day where the statistics for this pandemic scare the hell out of us.

Now I see it differently. World Aids Day is a day to end running away from one’s story, a day to end feeling shame and a lack of self-worth and a day to end self-rejection.

Today is a day to celebrate the warriors who have fought the good fight and gone to a better place and for the rest who still remain fighting strong with everything they got and for the allies who has stood by us in different ways.

It is a day to celebrate the people who as they stand strong embrace every facet of their story, boldly and authentically proclaiming This is Me!