Belly, Steve Harvey's Book, and Africa

You know, everything truly happens for a reason, it is important for us to recognize that always.  Today which happens to be Easter Sunday, I decided to watch Belly for the second time in my life.  Now, I have been trying to watch this movie for a month now, but my roommate just found it in his room, and I snuck it out to watch it this morning.  The crazy thing is that I also just finished reading Steve Harvey's new book too.  I know that you may be thinking what the hell do Belly, Steve Harvey's new book, and Africa have to do with one another, and it can be summed up in two words, our people.  Belly is a movie that will always be relevant to us in an unfortunate way.  The subject matter that the film deals with is prevelant in our communities just as much today as they were when that film was originally aired.  The end of the film made a connection for me, especially as a woman.  Harvey's book dealt with giving women advice on how to treat themselves, so that they could attract what they wanted from the opposite sex.  He put it in a candid way so that we could all follow what he was trying to say.  It is simply this, treat yourself how you deserve to be treated, and demand that you be treated that way by others. Period! The movie said the same thing, and gave examples of how and where we go wrong throughout.  The character "Sincere" was like Steve, and was the conscience, the one reminding us of what we all seem to know but often times ignore to satisfy needs of the flesh.  All of this has a relationship to the continent of Africa, because we are people from African descent, and with the way that the world is going, it might not be a bad idea for us to really work on strenghthening our relationship with that part of who we are.  We need it, and so do the people on the continent.  We are all not built to do what Sincere and his family did, but we can all make that pilgrimage in some shape or form. I certainly was not trying to get that "deep", but after all this is Easter Sunday, and if we don't get "deep" we will continue to be lost.

Peace and a bottle of hair grease!lol