Writing for Life | Creating a Story of Your Own

First of all they were both in competitions. Carrie and Susan entered competitions hoping to win a prize. Miss Prejean did not win. The jury is still out about whether Susan will win. Neither could have known the firestorm that would erupt when they took to the stage.

Before they became public figures most of the world did know who they were. Did they intend to create controversy? No. They were both thrust into maelstrom that was created by what they said and what they looked like.

But do we know who they are? The media storm that surrounds both, forces them into becoming spokespeople for platforms they didn’t originally sign up. Susan, who is not considered traditionally beautiful, broke through that barrier and demonstrated her beauty through talent and personality. People want her to stay the same and become the model for the average looking woman.

Carrie, on the other hand is considered beautiful, and because of a question asked at a competition became the spokesperson for traditional marriage. Unlike Susan, she seems willing, at this moment, to take on that cause. But what if they change their minds?

Both Carrie and Susan will have to decide what is their true story, and what message they want to give to the world. Rick Butts, of The Stardust Factor, says to “create an authentic identity”.

It is tempting to go with the flow and become what family, friends and society say should be your identity.

At the end, going against who you really want to be, is a slow soul sucking death. When we get on our own personal stage it is up to us to tell our unique story. Don’t be the message bearer for someone else’s agenda. And remember you can change your mind as you grow, and evolve who you are.

Create Your Own Story Now!

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The “Mother’s Day Proclamation” by Julia Ward Howe was one of the early calls to celebrate Mother’s Day in the United States. Written in 1870, Howe’s Mother’s Day Proclamation was a pacifist reaction to the carnage of the American Civil War and the Franco-Prussian War. The Proclamation was tied to Howe’s feminist belief that women had a responsibility to shape their societies at the political level.

Today, the proclamation is included in the Unitarian Universalist hymnal, Singing the Living Tradition.

Mother’s Day Proclamation

Arise, then, women of this day!
Arise, all women who have hearts,
Whether our baptism be of water or of tears!

Say firmly:
“We will not have great questions decided by irrelevant agencies,
Our husbands will not come to us, reeking with carnage, for caresses and applause.
Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn
All that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy and patience.
We, the women of one country, will be too tender of those of another country
To allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs.”

From the bosom of the devastated Earth a voice goes up with our own.
It says: “Disarm! Disarm! The sword of murder is not the balance of justice.”
Blood does not wipe out dishonor, nor violence indicate possession.
As men have often forsaken the plough and the anvil at the summons of war,
Let women now leave all that may be left of home for a great and earnest day of counsel.

Let them meet first, as women, to bewail and commemorate the dead.
Let them solemnly take counsel with each other as to the means
Whereby the great human family can live in peace,
Each bearing after his own time the sacred impress, not of Caesar,
But of God.

In the name of womanhood and humanity, I earnestly ask
That a general congress of women without limit of nationality
May be appointed and held at someplace deemed most convenient
And at the earliest period consistent with its objects,
To promote the alliance of the different nationalities,
The amicable settlement of international questions,
The great and general interests of peace.