So much of growing up is an unbearable waiting. A constant longing for another time. Another season.
Interpretation
Growing up often involves a painful sense of longing for what comes next in life.
Sonia Sanchez's quote captures the essence of the challenges of growing up, highlighting the emotional struggle that many face during this transformative period. It reflects the feeling of impatience and yearning for the future, underscoring how this 'unbearable waiting' can overshadow the present moment, leaving individuals caught between their current realities and their dreams of what is to come.
In practice
In a speech about adolescence, one might use this quote to illustrate the emotional challenges young people face.
I still hear you humming, Mama. The colour of your song calls me home. The colour of your words saying, Let her be. She got a right to be different. She gonna stumble on herself one of these days. Just let the child be. And I be, Mama.
The black artist is dangerous. Black art controls the 'Negro's' reality, negates negative influences, and creates positive images.
I shall become, I shall become a collector of me. And put meat on my soul.
And I cried… for all of the women who stretched their bodies for civilizations, only to find ruins.
In a change of masters the poor change nothing except their master's name.
It will come with a rush and a roar and a shudder. It will come howling and laughing and shrieking and moaning. It will come so fast you can’t help yourself you will stretch out your arms to embrace it. You will feel it before it comes and you will tense yourself for acceptance and the earth which is your eternal bed will tremble at the moment of your union.
There is nothing permanent except change. Nothing is permanent except change. The only constant is change. Change is the only constant. Change alone is unchanging.
We need a fundamental change of mindset with regards to the way we speak and behave about sex and sexuality. Boys and men have a particularly critical role in this regard, changing the chauvinist and demeaning ways sexuality and women were traditionally dealt with in both our actions and speaking.
The growth of trees and plants takes place so slowly that it is not easily seen. Daily we notice little change. But, in course of time, we see that a great change has taken place. So it is with grace. Sanctification is a progressive, lifelong work (Prov 4:18). It is an amazing work of God's grace and it is a work to be prayed for (Rom 8:27).
The winter solstice has always been special to me as a barren darkness that gives birth to a verdant future beyond imagination, a time of pain and withdrawal that produces something joyfully inconceivable, like a monarch butterfly masterfully extracting itself from the confines of its cocoon, bursting forth into unexpected glory.
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