Connection from my roots, how did that go? What did I learn?

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OCTOBER 17, 2015

I only gave a lecture about connecting, bonding, family and so on. I described what I was doing all these years. Family connection, then friends, then with your other loved ones, your animals. Even a farmer commits and adheres to / on his cattle. I recognize from my idiosyncratic roots, Zimbabwe where people and animals mainly in rural areas are highly interconnected.

Connection between the animals are subsequently to people

Sometimes cows or donkeys seen when they help people? They chat with each other, looking at each other and leave food behind each other and feed the young. As a child I helped my parents with the cattle, together with my brothers and sister. When I look back, I am particularly impressed with how we worked with neighborhood boys and girls. They also helped parents during planting, sowing and harvesting, and cattle. It happened a lot and it was really obvious that every child just had a taakje. Each task connected us also with the cattle we were doing.

I remember mostly the names we give to the cows. Each cow had a name that suited his character. From the moment it is a calf, the children and parents feel what it is. I write in the present tense because it still happened. I often get messages from my brother with the pictures of the remaining cattle.

Because names, creates a connection between man and animal, by regularity we were just connected.

Regularity and compound

From my parents I learned to get up very early. My parents had cows, goats, shelves, chickens, turkeys, dogs and cats. There was great diversity in.

They were so many and yet we knew one on which it was and what it did and lustte. Which eggs when it comes. We lived with season.

We ate seasonal vegetables, we were dependent on the moon. We slept early because it was faster dark. My mother always said “Basa Mangwanani” and this means better start working early, then you can still enjoy your day, because do you? it’s already evening.

This is what I still do, I remember when I worked at the office in Rotterdam and Schiedam I could often ask my colleagues if they had wet the bed;). So early was ik.Ik h ad been made long coffee and radio turned on to create a fun atmosphere connection to the work floor. I see actually why I did it.

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Thanks for reading my blog. So I asked in February to give a lecture during the nine-month exhibition about what I actually do. This I told such and eventually it went #Familybonding. I continue with my blog when my kids are relax.

Dear greetings
Melissa Budding
Living in the Netherlands since 1996

How Dutch men approach an African woman

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When I came to Holland I was too young to know that cultures and behavior between countries could be so different.
As a child I have never learnt anything else than embrace people you meet and treat them with respect.
I am that kind of a person who leaves the house when I am bored. I go and sit somewhere, order a drink and start a chat with people. I have always laughed with everyone. I didn’t know that Dutch people were pretty much reserved. I remember that guys spoke at most when they were drunk. Like during Kingsday and when the national team has won.

I used to visit an Irish pub in Vlaardingen and sometimes Breakaway in Rotterdam. I was mostly the first to start a conversation because I am pretty much interested in a lot of things.
This helped me to learn the language.

As a girl I knew what my mom always told me. No sex when there is no love. So I kept that in my mind at all the time.
I felt very free to talk to whomever I wanted but at the same time I could feel some lack of respect. I have no idea what made a few men think that when you are a black lady you must accept every offer you get even just to dance in a very sexual way. I could feel that these guys assumed I should accept. Probably because by then I was single. So people tend to think you are desperate. Those times in the 90s I was not a slim girl either. I still had a thick bone but not overweight. Those times if you were not as skinny as the models on catwalk then you weren’t really seen as sexy.

So each time especially when guys had a few drinks they would start talking to me freely and start dancing around me without asking for permission.. ofcourse you can guess how furious I did react.
I felt disrespected. At that moment I was too shy to really ask why they did behaved like that.
I remember words like #Dushi #fawaka (and I didn’t know what they meant by then) , which already shows that men assumed every black person who speaks good Dutch must be Surinamese. For me that wasn’t the real issue even though I would prefer to be recognised as me.

Later in the years, married, 3 children. I went with my husband to a local cafe/bar to drink something. By then we had already moved to the village. So you know villages are small. People know the new people already.
We stepped in and ordered some drinks.

There were a few guys standing there talking. They did ask my husband if we were together and my husband said yes. A weeķ later I went on my own because we could not find a babysitter.

That’s when I again experiences the same as before. Even the barman is my witness. The guys came and tried to speak in a Suriname or Antilliaanse language. I heard “hee Dushi”
And started touching my shoulder rubbing my back. As far as I know Dutch man, they do not usually approach you that way if they do have respect for you or when they fall in love with you.
I shouted at him to stop. He was shocked because I really think he did not expect this reaction.
I did ask him one question if he would do the same to a middle class Dutch lady. Apparently there was one standing on the other side of the bar. I asked him to go and do the same to that lady. He definately didn’t and he said no. At that he apologised and he felt ashamed of himself.

He actually thought black girls were easy going and would not say not to a white guy. And he did apologise and that was the first moment we started to have normal conversation at a certain level.

What if I was desperate, or insecure or maybe looking for love that badly such that I could not see the mean ideas behind??
I am really grateful that I have always had people around me who were supportive. What if I was illegal and I needed a greencard? What if I had debts, and I needed someone to help me? What I was desperate for a job and I needed someone to help me out.
Sometimes desperate situations put people in situations where they will be misused.

#knowyourworth #selflove #selfreflection.

Tips to young girls:

Whenever you feel like the world is not embracing you the way you deserve, do not accept fake love! People should learn to respect and that can only happen when you respect yourself. I do understand and I learn everyday that they are a lot of girls even men these days who are in a position where they do not want to be because of personal, financial situations. Those people I wrote this for, to help the world to learn respect one another

tips to African black sisters,

Whenever you show your worth, in whatever situation you are, you push away disrespectful people.
By imitating you are are actually telling someone my original me isn’t worth embracing.

Slavery and modern colonization still exist. Let alone self enslavement

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I do not want to lie to you. Confidence is not for sale. You can learn to be confident and not to be overconfident.
I have realized that it may take longer for an African girl, woman, mother and all other women to realize how beautiful they are already.
How much does it take for a woman to lose confidence?
A demanding society? a demanding parent when you are teenager?
Sense of inferiority caused by either slavery or colonization therefore having problems in self acceptance. Women failing to compliment one another and rather compete? That’s a sense of inferioruty

Do not forget slavery still exist, and modern colonization too. Let alone self enslavement.

  • being privileged, when you have been told by your society and parents that its only you who counts and you are the best, therefore suffer from incompetence and scared to lose. Being privileged can be dangerous especially if you are not aware. there are always better people out there.
  • a man’s society who are brainwashed that all women should be at a certain size for them to be considered as beautiful, and that they have to be have long hair to reach an accepted standard (sexy and content)

  • Insecure women without good sex at home therefore focus on their looks and nationalize that, yet we are not all the same.

  • Fashion industry, which we as a society could influence very easily instead of them influencing us, what do they know?

Be you, be yourself, love your looks, do not iimitate unless it suits you, get to know your body better and there buy clothes accordingly. Never rely on a compliment from others for you to continue.
#believeinyourtrueself #selflove #selfreflection #knowyourworth #knowyouringredients #teteMuchaneta #TeteMucha

Time is very important in life

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We all pass through a certain phase of our life. We were young we are young and we will all grow older, have babies. At some point our lives may have changed due to circumstances.
I have always learnt to enjoy every moment like tomorrow will never come. Now all I need to do is check my old pictures and post, to remind myself of those moments when I either had my first baby or before. these are the moments that help us re appreciate and remember where we come from.
Each time I look at my mother figure, I am proud because that body has done a lot of work, a lot more work than we sometimes can imagine of.
I love being a mom.
I know that at some point when my last daughter is at school, that my body will start to recover from parenthood. But for now I enjoy the phase I am in without any fear.
#believeinyourtrueself #selflove #selfrlection38151533_635079953521658_510851476134821888_n

BELIEVE IN YOUR TRUE SELF

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HUMANS PRACTICING EMPATHY
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When self belief-self sufficient-self reflection -self love-self acceptance-openminded ness exist in your life. Then you will not need to rely on someone to make you happy, to make your machine start moving.
Many people have gone through suffering, therefore trauma. If selfacceptance took place they could have managed to help themselves through recognition of the real problems in their lives.
Unfortunately people run into a victim blanket due to failure of self recognition.
The more you wait for someone to solve all your problems the lazy you become. Its then easier for you to start blaming, shaming, pointing fingers.
When you practice empathy you will find out that there is more into life than waiting for someone to make a mistake so you can run into a victim blanket.
#believeinyourtrueself #selflove #sel— in Nieuwkoop.

Self slavery

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I do not want to lie to you. Confidence is not for sale. You can learn to be confident and not to be overconfident.
I have realized that it may take longer for an African girl, woman, mother and all other women to realize how beautiful they are already.
How much does it take for a woman to lose confidence?
A demanding society? a demanding parent when you are teenager?
Sense of inferiority caused by either slavery or colonization therefore having problems in self acceptance. Women failing to compliment one another and rather compete? That’s a sense of inferioruty

Do not forget slavery still exist, and modern colonization too. Let alone self enslavement.

  • being privileged, when you have been told by your society and parents that its only you who counts and you are the best, therefore suffer from incompetence and scared to lose. Being privileged can be dangerous especially if you are not aware. there are always better people out there.
  • a man’s society who are brainwashed that all women should be at a certain size for them to be considered as beautiful, and that they have to be have long hair to reach an accepted standard (sexy and content)
  • Insecure women without good sex at home therefore focus on their looks and nationalize that, yet we are not all the same.
  • Fashion industry, which we as a society could influence very easily instead of them influencing us, what do they know?

Be you, be yourself, love your looks, do not imitate unless it suits you, get to know your body better and there buy clothes accordingly. Never rely on a compliment from others for you to continue.

BALANCED WOMEN CONNECTION FOR OUR WORLD

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 8 March 2018

I was already working since this morning to write this short blog because I didn’t want this day to go by unnoticed.

A lot goes through my head when I think especially of a woman who brought me here in this world. Unforgettable! Indispensable, yet she is gone. She lives in me and my children. This woman I recall almost every day. This woman in her when women had few rights fought for her daughters who they are now.

Anyway, I do not just naturally talk about my self.

All the women I have met so far are ladies who are all trying to make something good out of life in their own way.

these women are:

  • moms
  • ladies
  • pregnant women
  • girls
  • singlemoms
  • grandmothers
  • aunties
  • sisters
  • in-laws

Among all these women, there are many who are trying to conceive, many who have already given birth and trying to find balance between work and family. Among all those ladies also enough who cannot have children for various reasons. But they are still women with the same values.

Some women are fighting right now to have a little brother or little sister for their first child although this may sound luxury to those without. Every problem and situation is different is deserve to be taken seriously.

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I can name everything but I’m not better than I wangle sometimes. I am learning  learning a lot! I am not close to perfect,

I am blessed to be able to know all these women. I thought I was poor because my mom is late. But no the grass it is not greener on the other. I thought I was sad that I had three cesareans, but it appears that could give a friend or acquaintance not breast through breast surgery.

Life is complicated and we women make it all not easy for ourselves and definitely not for others.

There are things that we can let go of difficult and that varies from woman. In recent years, I learn just strong, passionate women know. I learn that not everyone necessarily have to walk in your street, if you but what together grants and respects you will see that it works for you.

Continue to encourage each other! Give each other a lot, correct each other when things go wrong, not to gossip behind. Help each other to improve relations with our husbands and children and not destroy. Unfortunately, this also happens.

My concern this year and the coming years when we actually behave differently, eat or feel because we want to lose weight. Because someone has ever given a dress size as ideal. Beware, however, I came to that his is not necessarily healthy slim. everything has her own extreme edges and everything is too much is not good.

Hopefully we manage to find balance and happiness.

Point. Love you all!

Thanks to women who participate and have participated in the Baby Workout Carry this year’s Negenmaandenbeurs! What were you good! I am very grateful to you I should know. Your children have met and that you entrusted me to share these moments with you vulnerable. THAT’S FINE SAY to be allowed twice a week with people you can easily talk about feminine discomforts and cons and thereby improve a lovely family home life.

Happy International Women’s Day.

Just showing my appreciation to all women have with so far, women I have Learned a lot from and women who guide me in Difficult moments and years! Not forgetting to mention my own mom who made it happen, a woman Whom we can not live without but no longer there.