Hello all my readers! Okay, yes I know it’s been awhile since I last wrote. Trust me when I say that I have chastised myself enough already. It’s hard trying to juggle a 40 hours a week job, friends, family and then all the extra. I guess my blogs just slipped my mind, but no worries my summer job is about to come to an end so now I’m back and ready to blog away.
So by now I’m sure you all have noticed my very odd title. I’m going to answer the question that may be on a few of your minds. The title is in no way a reference to the popular phrase, “A black man in a white man’s world.” This post has nothing to do with race. It has to do with individuality and uniqueness.
If any of you aren’t aware yesterday was Amelia Earhart’s 115th birthday (Thanks Google!). As I was surfing through the web and I saw Google’s tribute to her I started thinking about when I first learned about Amelia in elementary school. At that time what I admired most about Amelia was that she was the unexpected. An odd ball, a pariah, a black sheep. I’m sure you all have heard people refer to themselves as the black sheep of their families. I’m also sure that many of you feel that way too( I know I do 99.9% of the time). The black sheep stands lonely and isolated in a field of white sheep. Not completely accepted by their fellow sheep because they are different.
Being a black sheep isn’t an easy life. There will be points where you won’t have many friends, you’ll be laughed at, mocked and you may even thinking of picking up that white paint brush and converting. But I beg you, do not convert be strong because in the end it is the black sheep that remembered in history. And we aren’t alone either. There are thousands of black sheep out there but we’re just dispersed across the world. It would be nice if we could all huddle together in our own unique community separate from the rest of the world but then wouldn’t the world be so boring! It’s us black sheep that reveal the truth, explore the unknown and propose beliefs that go against society’s norms. Without us the world would be lacking quite a lot of luster.
Amelia Earhart is just one example. Lets not forget about our other black sheep like MLKJ, Gandhi, Queen Elizabeth (a personal favorite of mine), Einstein, John Brown, Coco Chanel, Dr.Seuss, the Wright Brothers, Edgar Allen Poe and even Freud! (I’m not saying I agree with all his theories but you gotta give props to the brother for not giving up) So I guess what I’m trying to say here is that if there were no black sheep in this grassy green field, this field would still be stuck back in the Middle Ages.
Until next time my dear readers. I’ll see ya then and don’t scared to message me with what makes you a black sheep. :)
