Michelle Obama “Becoming”
I remember when the Obama's went into office back in 2005, it was a great accomplishment for the African American community to have the first BLACK family in the white house.
I remember over time seeing Michelle doing things being highlighted blasted for certain things but I remember I was in my teens and Early twenties when they went into office.... I heard the tremors.
Never been a political girl so I stayed away from it like a plague. But I remember the last interview that she did with Oprah before she left the white house. And found her intriguing didn’t think much about her till this book came out.
But I have to say everyone was talking about even my Business coaches were making it a top read, and I had to read this book, because I never had audible, I got the book free of charge and listened to the book.
As I listened to it, it remembers me of way back when I was in high school and had read the book “their Eyes are watching god. As I listened to her describe the stories of her childhood, conversation with her mom, her dad.... uncles' aunts' friends and I got to know her on a deeper level.
But you know what shocked me as I listened her up bringing
How she viewed the world... for woman of that snatcher I never thought that we both would see the world in simmer manors
Her view of love and relationships
How times change over the years.
The guys she dated before and then how her relationship with Barrack made her feel... how she spoke so fondly of him
But also her joy of going to places like target to shop for her everyday needs
A lot of times we forget that when we see these people in high power positions that they are human like us and do or desire to do a lot of things just like we do.
But the juxtaposition of going from normal everyday wife that worked in the medical field to being the wife of the president of the united states.
Or even those days of HATING the idea of being in that type of position but when she saw that where Barack was head, she sacrificed her comfort and her children's comfort and walked alongside her husband.
It made me sit back and think about how I would handle being in a relationship with someone that has stature and position how would I handle it, having kids in that... knowing your life from before would never be the same.
Listening to her speak about the things she developed in the position of being first lady
For Food and how she wanted to change the range of the way children were eating in schools
Keeping people active
These are all things I was in fact interested in seeing major changes in and to see sustained
Being able to withstand the righteous amount of work she had to do... having to deal with the fact that the budget wasn’t there for her to travel like her husband did so she had would have to bus a lot of places, to get her weakly work done whole barrack had the presidential treatment.
And seeing those things her feelings
Her realness and make me think
What do you do In that situation... getting to meet Nelson Mandela, and other major people
Working with music artist to put together songs for specific movements she was doing
That's my Girls
But the moral is, with All that she went through in ALL her life and the best and worst of presidency... sometimes the simple things that you do mean the most, like taking her dogs down stairs and just making a grilled cheese sandwich for herself and sitting on her back porch watching the neighborhood with the dogs so simple but perfect.
People don’t understand that when you live a high-profile life that sometimes the simplest thing you can do, from cooking dinner for your family.
Curling up and watching TV
Going out on a date
Simple things... makes you feel Normal for one moment in time even if you’ll never be.
So the question is if I ever got the opportunity to be put into the position to be a celebrity... A lot would say yes for the light camera, the Fan Fair and the Beauty.
Not me I would only want it if it meant I could do so for a cause greater then Fame and money because it’s that CAUSE or “My why” that will keep me going when the times get hard or tiring
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Book For April Michelle Obama "Becoming" I drank the Kool aid Everyone was taking about this book shouting it from the hill tops screaming it from the mountains if you didn't read this book you were under a Rock
so if you don't read the book you are under a Rock because I listened to it on Audible and it was a worth while read definitely a 5 star so Join us for the month of April