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“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder” and all that jazz, right?

Firstly, I identify as a man. A Black man.

There are quite a few preconceived notions that Society believes about Black men and most of those beliefs are not a good reflection of a flawed but Human existence. We are not going by an exhaustive list but I will touch on some of the things that may be seen as a positive trait.

We are in an age where most of the fear based presumptions about one another have mostly crumbled and soon the day will come when even the most extreme race-baiters will drop their cause for the greater good. For now, these extremists focus on skin color as a means of separation. After separation, the schooling becomes a central  theme because the parents who were disenfranchised by their parents suffering the racist past of our country. Because these particular people were disenfranchised, the monies to fund public education was not there and those public schools suffered and because the schools suffer that leads to the kids suffering.  This disparity is used to suggest that non-disenfranchised youth were inherently smarter and perpetuates the stereotypes that were initially used to disenfranchise the people. It is a cycle of violence. But what does that have to do with my identifying as a Black man and how we are perceived? It speaks to establish how these beliefs sustain themselves in our Society.

Darker skin, darker eyes, darker-kinkier-hair, wider nostrils, thicker lips; that about sums up our differences from the lightest of us to the darkest of us.

Muscles come in every skin color. Big breast, thighs and ass come in every skin color. Height and length come in every skin color. Intelligence comes from every part of the World and not in small numbers. How the intelligence is expressed has more to do with the development of that particular nation as it is relative to their technological presence.

What is it that makes us commonly regard someone as beautiful or attractive? Lighter skin with darker eyes? Darker skin with lighter eyes? Lighter skin with lighter eyes? Darker skin with darker eyes? How often you see one or the other? Is it purely what makes it different to the supply that you most often see?

For me, I like lighter skin with darker eyes the most consistently. However, watching darker skin with lighter eyes also catches my attention. It appears to be a complementing vs contrasting dynamic that truly has no superior in my look of things. Again, I have darker skin and darker eyes with darker hair and what there is out there, my look is not uncommon but not the most common, either.

Then you have the “sapiosexuals” who would swear that the appearance is an illusion and that a person’s true beauty springs forth from their intellect(which, if we callback to the earlier reference might lead one to believe that people with my appearance couldn’t possibly have such a distinction applied to them). That, in and of itself, constitutes a shame. Because not only is the person not beautiful but they are not intelligent and then that leaves them little recourse to find worth.

In all honesty, this is fairly lazily written. I stopped watching what I was watching and no music is in the background but the ideas are bouncing around in my head and I really don’t know if I picked the ideas that I would truly marry to this topic. I refuse to review this writing. No reason. More of an expression for a moment; a snapshot of my mind in the Now.

For me, beauty is not triggered by lusting for a svelte yet voluptuously shaped body and “easy to look at for hours on end” type of face: that is not beauty. Beauty his how you treat people and make them feel with your energy. Beauty is in all the abstract elements involved in manifesting your heart for the sake of servitude. Beauty is in everything you do and in none of the stuff the skin could show you. Yet, here we are in to year 2019 stuck with the presumption of beauty as something we have absolutely no control over.

I truly believe myself to not only be beautiful but gorgeous; as a CIS-gendered, hetero-normative, proudly masculine male who is protective of those who lack the mental & physical strengths which I possess.

With your actions:

Be beautiful.

Be gorgeous.

Refusal to live a life of compromised freedoms.

Yeah, I am probably among the last to have been privy to both and yet not fully aware of the overlapping mentality of these two lightning rods: one revered by political groups for historical contributions and the other for critical participation in social dialogue. Those distinctions could be flipped back and forth without much disagreement being made; the reason for that is due to the truthful quality of what each said.

“Give me Liberty or Give me Death.”

In the Red corner we have Patrick Henry and in the Blue corner we have Erik Killmonger. It is a goofy hodgepodge of ideals that ironically, is far more similar than not alike. Think of it as an unexpected translation within the same language with a slightly varied lexicon.

“Why, so you can lock me up? Nah. Just bury me in the ocean with my ancestors who jumped from ships, ’cause they knew death was better than bondage.”

Yup. We can play the “keep it simple” game and illustrate the differences between the two statements which are central to my “thought-peace” here and it goes as so: Nothing but Liberty and the only alternative is fight me for it.

The other, was convinced from the nature of his own deed that the only alternatives were being charged to pay penance by being locked away. Convicted by internal convictions to either bring his dream to reality or die trying. But was he wrong? Who can say?

My personal view is that he survive and try again. That he not give up because he failed. Yay, he avoided subjugation and lived by his words. Yay, he showed how truly powerful we could be if only we threw caution to the wind and refused the colonizers as the blind men who seek to lead us the blinded men.(I like that phrase for paying the differences between us; who have been stripped of much of our cultures).

That being said, we can learn from any, all and even those we oppose for their intellectual falterings. For if we are correct and they do falter, they still sustain despite their flaws. That is incredibly notable. Not to be overlooked. Furthermore, the more you learn, the stronger you are. Knowledge is strength.

What is so different between the two? One is a fictional character and the other has plenty of fictional accounting of his character. A man is nothing but a man.

Keeping men in bondage, either directly or indirectly(such as our financial and governmental systems) is dangerous.

I may not be part of the revolution or even a spark to create any part of the revolution but I know it is coming because regression-toward-the-mean is as constant as change itself. As far as I can see, 45 has taken it back towards the wrong side of History as corruptibly fast as possible. That just means it has to come back twice as fast.

I suppose, the reason, if I ever held any bitterness towards a former miss, it’s because she left me when I was furthest from bliss.

First semester in college….overwhelmed with moving and being alone…

Just moved into a new apartment, had a new job, and lost two cars…one of which I had just purchased.

When I had spent money I didn’t have, to move cross state in a truck known to overheat while towing every possession I owned and a heavy heart….

I just…I have every right to be bitter and hate them. But I don’t. I just want them to live a happy life…as far away from me as possible. I don’t want to think about any of them for the next decade. I tried my best at the time. They still left me. Lies, all of them told. I wasn’t even mad. I was hurt.

However, with these words, I seek to release them… I seek to seal whatever hesitations, bitterness, jadedness or experience they’ve granted me. I seek to be naive again. I seek the honesty of being rawlly honest.

Forgiveness.

Absolution.

Release.

Seal.

No responses to memories.

Think and smile but never pause long enough to talk to echoes.

Three and a half years after the hurricane rolled into my life, it has been out of my life for a year.

I do not think I have ever been so in love before. Then again, every love I have known has been drastically different. This love seemed to put the others into perspective. I was really young with my first love. As rough as I was around the edges, she and I simply worked. I LOVED that girl. I loved her body. I loved her ability to be herself despite how dominating I was. Unfortunately, there were more forces involved than my young mind could handle. I could have been happy with her, if and only if I was who I am now. Before, she had no chance of happiness. I recognize that. Still, she wanted me to marry her. Great girl.

The second probably loved me more than any woman has ever loved me. In retrospect, I really broke her heart and I feel absolutely horrible about that. A lot happened and we were dumb about handling each other. I wanted her to marry me but she wanted to do things first. Those things just so happened to separate us. It’s odd, because my doubt was monumental despite how much she showed me she loved me. She simply wasn’t consistent and I needed that. She still wouldn’t be happy with the current me. But she certainly could appreciate my growth. And I grew a lot with her. I learned a lot about humans from dealing with her. She was probably my truest girlfriend. I made her feel some kinda way and she cherished that in me. Because I took care of her. I didn’t like the way that sounded but with her, my luck was fairly consistent. After her, my luck went south. I nicknamed her “Lucky” in my head. Go figure. The power of thought.

The most recent woman, was she a doozy or what. The woman I loved the hardest. I never tried so hard to be something significant to someone. My consistency, patience, understanding, acceptance and forgiveness all rocketed skyward with growth. She beat the living shit out of me…unintentionally…I think. Well, it had to be because I can’t see her doing it on purpose. I was an idiot for her. I threw away money for her. I lost countless articles of my personality just so I could continue being with her. These things weren’t her fault. I wasn’t built to be with her. I know that now. As hard as I tried and as much as I let go, it was an essential incompatibility that kept things sparse between us. To be fair, I think she really enjoyed me. In a way no other woman ever could. She utilized my compassion and understanding to help her sonar socially. She was great at utility in general but horrible at managing her star player(me). And I didn’t care what happened to me as long as I was with her. I always questioned whether she actually gave a damn about me…just as I questioned the other two. I’m silly. These women gave me everything I asked for and sometimes more and still, I was incapable of believing that they loved me for me. I always dismissed it because I was a good guy…even though they said I was mean. Each of them. They also said I was gentle and the way I cared about them was amazing. Conflicting data but I understand. Sometimes I was softer than others. Other times, they mistook what I was doing or meant. The only one I was truly mean to was the first one. The second saw some ugly sides of me but nothing bad. The third, well…I made a few mistakes here and there but mostly, my service to her was immaculate.

I was looking through the pictures, remembering my loves. I LOVED THEM SO HARD. I always will. I appreciate every second we squeezed out of being together. They are awesome women. I’m very proud to have known them. It would be a dream to have them all together and have a conversation. That would stroke the ever living fuck out of my ego. I would love for them to have a conversation about me. Hear the things they laugh about and poke fun at me about. I’d like to know what each of them thought my weakness was BUT the funny thing is, I don’t think they could have that conversation. The way each of them showed jealousy about me…the way they staked ownership of my existence and bitterness at the idea of me not being with them. I just don’t see them getting along long enough to say anything of note. I’d still….that would be something else for me. I don’t care if they had nothing but bad things to say about me. I gave the best I had to each of them at the time we were together. Honestly. I never tried to control any of them. I did explain the truth a little too often and made the equal but opposite reactions seem like punishment, but I intended it in a way that I felt disrespected and could not allow myself to stay. It’s just, you can’t give warnings on somethings. People take it as manipulation. I took it as giving a heads up. Touch fire, get burned. They took it like I was claiming to be an authority.

It’s not like I was being foul about it. They each thought it okay to reach back into the past and deal with exes. I never thought that was okay. Even more so now, do I think talking to exes is nothing but asking for trouble. As much as I love the women from my past? Nope, I can’t do it. Even if I never saw them again, my heart would feel the tug of familiar emotions. Once I love a person that deeply, I can’t turn back. I can’t be your friend. I can’t sit around crying myself to sleep every night. And it was year after my last relationship ended that I finally realized, this woman fucking LOVED me. Enjoyed me. Appreciated me. They all did. Each in her own way. Luckily for me, I didn’t let my doubt weigh too heavily on the things I did for them or how I talked to them.

Sometimes, my heart would be bruised and in tatters but I’m talking to them like it’s all fine. I tried to get them to open up to me and avoid judging them. I did a pretty good job but whenever I got with a woman, there was always some nigger offering his opinion about her reputation. First woman, everywhere I went, niggas was saying how she cheated. It was not true. Until I felt like she was cheating on me. The entire year I dated her before it became long distance, that vagina would just choke my penis to pain. After she went to bootcamp, she felt much looser. Now, back then, I wasn’t familiar with wetness principles. Now, I am sure she wasn’t cheating on me. Still, it doesn’t feel good to be cheated on in retrospect. That’s kinda worse than finding out it’s happening in the moment. You already been made a fool of and had no clue. I just thought she was cheating on me and I allowed that feeling to get me all ambivalent about dealing with her. One overly aggressive birthday phone call on her part and I was single again.

The second cheated on me after I cheated on her. I didn’t feel like she was treating my sacrifices appropriately and another chick was gassing me proper like, so I fell in that mouth and those big ass comfy lips. Oh lord, It’s hard to feel like those comfy lips weren’t worth that long period of pain I went through. I will never forget how those lips felt so there’s that. I also thought the second was cheating on me when she visited out of town. She was wearing another dudes sweats, staying at his place. Shit just seemed foul. My trust in her went south quickly. So when I went out of town, I got a fuck buddy and had a tremendous amount of fun. Second was saying tons of foul shit on the phone but it was a hard moment.

The third, well, she had her own demons to battle. She consistently inspired insecurity and expected that to be made okay. I could not handle that much. She’d say she did something then claim it was a lie and the truth never seemed to be given wings by her. Ultimately, she and I weren’t having sex for the greater part of our relationship and I thought she was having sex with everybody else. The “best friend” that would fly up from Texas…look. Paranoia is a bitch. It’s really hard to see love or trustworthiness in somebody who does things like that. She constantly said I was too critical but I didn’t have much else I could do.  I was lonely in love with her. I miss our conversations. I miss her companionship. I miss her and I miss the others. I miss everything about my lovers. They were so awesome to me. They loved me soooo much and I loved them sooooo endlessly.

It’s good tho. Now that I know, beyond any shadow of any doubt that they did indeed love me sincerely. They gave me great effort and I learned a lot from them because of that. Amazing young women. I am so proud of my choices. Each of them beautiful. Gorgeous. INCREDIBLY INTELLIGENT. Absolutely amazing. I love love love love love them. I miss miss miss miss miss them. I am endlessly grateful for them. I appreciate them forever. They can do nothing wrong in my eyes, aside from contacting me. Although, I love hearing from them, I know it is inappropriate for them to contact me. They are all taken. I am very happy for them. It’s beautiful and I wish them the best.

I was hurt when I lost each of them. I needed others to get over each. Suicidal even. BUT I LOVED AND LOST AND I AM IMMENSELY GRATEFUL FOR THE OPPORTUNITY. Thank you. All.

So, I am finally moving forward. I found me a great woman. A woman so sweet that I was immediately stricken with the softness of her character. She is probably the best fit for me this far. A week after meeting her, I got a job offer. Great luck and motivation. She’ll heal my heart up just fine. She’s honest and refreshed by my honesty. It’s really all win here. Going over my old videos and pictures helped me remember all of my flaws. I tried hard to remember so I avoid making the same mistakes. Without Toccara…without Erica…without Francesca…. I simply wouldn’t be the man I am today. I wouldn’t know the great feats I am capable of. I would know that I can love deeply and truly and still be an unbelievable man for a woman. Like a dream. You know how many times I’ve heard that? Enough to let me know that my love is as real as I can make it. Genuine to the core.

I am excited. THANK YOU ALL. I HOPE THIS WOMAN WORKS OUT FOR ME. I PROMISE I WILL TAKE EVERYTHING Y’ALL TAUGHT ME AND IMPROVE FOR THE BETTER. I APOLOGIZE IF I TREAT HER MUCH BETTER THAN I TREATED YOU. JUST KNOW, YOU HELPED TO MAKE ME BETTER. I WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU. Bye again.

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