To Be a Woman

What is it to be a woman? To be a woman is to be a stronger version of a female and a softer version of a man. It is to embrace the duality of genders in one sexual category. To be a woman is to diffuse the feminine aroma and make the flowers of desert bloom, it is to be the sky, the wind, the moon and the sun altogether and to rotate around the whole planets and defy gravity and always falling upwards.

To be a woman is to enclose every kind of woman in one, it is to know how to tackle and bring to the surface the goddess, the seductress, the sinner, the saint, the artist and the creator of herself. It is the ability to shed skins and wear new ones with every experience that she undergoes.

It is love incarnated in the capability to give life, but the heroism is to know how to sustain this life, how to keep the flame ignited with the winds of change and not allow to the storm to burn it out.

To be a woman is to always evolve for a better edition with each passing day, it is to soften the hardship and to solidify what is fragile; it is to serve a higher purpose, it is to rise above the temptations of ephemeral pleasures in order to catch the eternal delights of living life to its fullest and savoring each flavor in the banquet of existence and transforming through the discovery of a new layer that unfolds as the shell breaks to reach the inner pearl that adorns her beauty.

To be a woman is to be supportive of any triumph a man or a woman register, it is considering every victory anywhere as a victory everywhere for humanity to move forth, it is to contribute into a better world, it is to rise to the challenge and have the soldier’s soul for a battle that is to be won.

To be a woman is to recognize her god given gifts and to invest in them for a bigger purpose, it is to know who she is and what she is capable of, it is to laugh to the comedy of life and to cry to its tragedy.

It is to have a heart of a queen and the modesty of a humble servant, it is the awareness of her worth, herself dignity and respect, it is fighting for her right to be happy and never compromise her identity to please others, it is teaching others how to lead and never follow with the ability to spread enthusiastic dust over the dull existence that others may vanish under its cover.

To be a woman is to be the best sister, daughter, mother, friend, it is to impose respect even if she can’t take love, it is to know that her mind is sacred and her soul is divine and that her flesh is only accidental and that her essence is substantial.

To be a woman is to acknowledge that there is more to life than just looks and shopping and to know that life does not stop turning over a pair of shoes or a dress however important those might be.

It is the knowledge that not things or objects or any other being give her the self worth , but it comes from her very core , from the tissue of her being that makes her fibers weaved by magical strings that reflect every color that make her shine from each and every angle …

To be a woman is to know what she wants and to know how to get it and to know what she can have and what she cannot …

The unusual , the supernatural , the bravery to stand up for herself and keep her head up high no matter how hard others try to bring her down, it is having the intellectual wings that make her soar high above the limitations of logic or tradition, it is building her own laws and being faithful to her true colors … Never settle to be less than who you can become , never stay in your safety zone , jump over the fences of social boundaries and always run free in the wilderness of the world , sleep on the clouds and dance with the stars, and remember the horizon is only as far as you can look…

Lina Hanna Hanna