Make a Statement:

I have seen this expression on many sites that I often frequent for shopping.  Especially when there are special seasons like the one we are in. The advertisement shows many women dressed in their holiday finest, and they proposed to you that you can make the same statement. They show many shapely, curvy plus size women looking great. They give the appearance, that they promote self-esteem in these outfits as they are looking fabulous.   I am an online shopper who puts everything in the shopping cart and most of the time I won’t purchase anything. Unless it catches me right at that impulse moment.
When you see this phrase, what does it mean to you? We can ask ourselves what it means to make a statement and what do we want to say? I reflect upon starting my journey, I wanted to break out the dull, drab clothes I saw for most, curvy women and nontraditional size women. I think that so many other shapely women, like myself want to make a statement as well. We make statements all the time without saying a word.

Sometimes I am in a meeting at work, and I get asked, “Curvanna” what is your opinion on this matter. I make a statement, then what I say shows glimpse of who I am, or who I want people to think I am.  I have already made a statement when I came in the door. The questions then becomes what have I said to others by my presence? Every day we speak to the world by the way we talk, what we wear, our gestures. What are you radiating to the world, this is something to think about.
What are the statements that we make about ourselves? Do we show who we really are, or do we hide? Is it easier to pretend to be someone else, or should we begin to show who we really are? It takes a lot of energy to continue a façade. It is like wearing a mask.  Why do we have to hide as beautiful women? What type of statement do you want to make? Do I want to show that I am flashy, or a flower child?
What does your community think that of you? We are the only ones that can answer this question.

There is a song, by Kierra Sheard, Flaws, produced by Aaron W. Lindsay, and some of the lyric are….
Sometimes I get a little unsure, A lot insecure, Sometimes I know I might say some words
That might cause some hurt, Sometimes I get in my own way, I’m way too much to put up with
But you put up with it all….
Chorus
You love, you love my flaws
Think they make me beautiful
You don’t see them as flaws at all
That’s why
That’s why that’s why I love you
Cause you are, you are the one who
The one who loves my flaws

I love being on the journey and discovering that there are many like me, just with different names. Some of us want to make a statement and we do it in our one way, bold and loud or soft and sweet. However you do it. Do it, like the golden arches use to say, “Have it your way”! Do it your way!