I never sought to make money off my good looks when I was young & hot. Some of us go our own way … lessons learned. Some things may have been easier if I had sold-out & married for money years ago. Being able to make my own choices may have meant a tougher life, but it’s my own. The inner strength & stubbornness has never left. But sure, I could use more brains 🤣🤦🏻‍♀️😆 🥰🙌🙏

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For all skills there are primary and secondary uses. If you're good looking, then you can use it indirectly to get an interview or by people wanting to be close to you and offering you opportunities. Same with strength, you don't have to be a fighter, you can project it and make others more inclined to give what you want. Brains seems to work best indirectly, most child geniuses seem to fail later on, while those that find the intelligence route harder often succeed later in life. Have 2 of the three attributes helps and not being exceptional in any one category helps as you tend to appreciate what you have and work harder at developing it or its use. That's my limited thinking on the matter anyway. I'm probably wrong 😂
Mike, you’re hitting me with truth today. Thanks, friend. Certainly some things have been easier in as far as being able to get some to listen to my ideas. Being a female in military then government surrounded by men & mostly masculine-dominant thinking is what formed me. As a former fighter, legitimately a lot of it is mental. There were times I’d stood up to far better fighters who outweighed me but my mental game was on point. Something that left with my youth. The broken back helped humble me as well 🤣 Brain has always been an issue for me. I’ve always leaned into my spirituality & have used it for my benefit & others when it felt appropriate. As a child I was considered advanced placement in school & they locked us in tiny rooms to work all day. Feck outta here with that noise. Became disruptive so I’d be placed with majority of children cause I didn’t want to be “special.” Intelligence wasn’t highly prized where I grew up. Planted elsewhere my flower may have bloomed earlier. Who knows? I do, but it’s hard to accept that if I’d grown up in another home or another environment my life would be different. As such, my path was walked. Did the best possible. Most of my friends from middle school have ended up in prison, are drug dealers, addicts or are dead. That’s where their lives went. It was the neighborhood. Generational poverty & lack of vision by many allowed corruption & soul death. 😭 My parents (father & step-mother) moved to another neighborhood when I left for the Army. My siblings went to a “better” school & had opportunities that I never had. Grateful for that. I hold no ill-will towards my parents as I know they did the best they could with all their resources. All of that to say, we probably agree. All of us have limited thinking from our own experiences & worldview. Right? Working together to make it work for benefit of all is best I know. Maybe not all. 99% is worth fighting for. The top 1% have enslaved us all & they need to pay their fair share. 🥰😊🙌