Marley & Me

Last week my cousin and I went to watch the new Bob Marley film/documentary ‘Marley’, by the time the film had ended I left the cinemas feeling some serious good vibrations!!

You see, some families are Beatles families and some families are Bob Marley families. I 100% PROUDLY come from a Bob Marley family and anytime that Mr Robert Nesta Marley is played on the stereo in our house, is guaranteed to be good day.

I remember once someone asked me who my favourite reggae artist was, and without a second thought I said “Bob Marley”, my friend who I was with at the time made a face and said “that’s a bit typical” to which I wish I’d replied “who the fuck cares?!”.

Every once in a while there is someone in the public eye who comes around and has this indescribable vibe about them, that is so wonderfully and magnificently real and truthful that they are able to make people feel things that are never knew existed through music.  For me that person is Bob Marley.

The film talks with his nearest a dearest, going through the stories of his life that made him into the man that the world could not help but love. 

His friends and families told how Marley came from humble beginnings but had a unique passion and love for music and saw this as a way out not only for himself out of Trench-town, Jamaica, but also a way out for the worlds’ people who cared enough to join him on his mission and leave ignorance behind.

The film also looks into the significant influence that Rastafari had on the star and how he truly was a self practitioner of what he preached.

He truly was a good man who cared about his people and culture and used his talent for greater good. People all over the world are still able to identify some part of themselves with him, his music, his mission and his spiritual energy which to me is such an amazing and powerful thing.

After watching ‘Marley’ it was hard not to fall in love with the man! If he was still alive I think that he would positively be the only old man whose babies I would want to have.

If this film comes to a cinema near you go support it, enjoy it and learn from it.

While trying to decide which of my favourite Bob Marley songs to feature for this post, a car drove past my bedroom window blasting ‘Is This Love’, there was nothing more that I could do but laugh and feature the song that had evidently been chosen for me.
Enjoy.

                        

Love Sara (A little lady who knows ‘one good thing about music…’) xxx

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Ignorance Is Not Always Bliss!

If you were to ask me “what’s your Religion?”, based on the religion of my parents my response should be “I am a Rasta” but in reality my response is this, “I believe in God, but I do not go to church, I believe in God but I do not know my bible and I believe in God but I do not know the Lord’s Prayer”. Growing up in the UK this was never really an issue for me until I changed my location and had a religious culture shock.

I am a second generation African Caribbean born Brit whose parents rebelled against their parents traditional traditions of Christianity and clasped the root of Rastafari.

When I was a small child and people use to ask me what my religion was, I used to reply “well my mom and dad are Rasta’s so I that’s what I am” as I got older I realised that I really did not and still do not have much insight into the religion that I claimed as a child, but this didn’t and still does not bother me because I have never felt that because I do not know all there is to know about the religion that I claimed or the Christian beliefs of my Grandparents that this lowered or continues to lower my value as a human being.

I personally do not believe that in order to be a good person, to understand yourself, to know the difference between right and wrong, to love yourself or to have appreciation and respect for all things in this world that you have to strictly abide by a religion and its Holy days and place of worship.

But here I am 25 years of age taking a break from life in the Caribbean and catching up on some quality family time which involved an uncle that I’d never met before preach to me like you would not believe! He actually sat me down and asked me if I had a boyfriend to which I innocently and thankfully replied “no”, to which he replied “Good! Keep your virginity! You must remain pure for the Lord!” As the saying goes ‘the Lord truly is my saviour’ because had he asked a question about my virginity rather than make a statement I feel the rest of that dictation would have gone VERY differently.

After telling my cousin all about my uncles talk that may have been suitable for a 12 year old girl not so much for a 25 year old that heavily believes in free will and pre-marital fornication, she told to me that “God gives everyone the free will to make their own choices” so why is it that my choice to not know my bible, not to go to church, but to believe in God as a higher being is treated as though it’s the wrong choice?

I believe that religion offers great foundation and also great guidance for life, but from what  I know and understand of various religions, each religion possesses beliefs and values that are already within me which I call Respect, Love, Appreciation, Acceptance, Understanding, Faith, Kindness and Forgiveness but above all Moral.
Each Religion when it boils down to it teaches the same concepts but there are many individuals of each religion who need to practice what they preach.

My intention by my beliefs and the way I live my life is not to offend anyone nor is it to please anyone other than myself. If the things that I do and the way that I do them bother you then tough titty!

Yeah I swear, I drink, I dance to the ‘devil’s music’, I fornicate without a ring on my finger and gay people don’t ruin my day! Whoop-dee-flippin’- do!  The things I do make me happy, they feel right and they allow me to be the person that I am. If I strictly abided by a religion and didn’t do these things then I just wouldn’t be true to myself, further more I wouldn’t be the person that I am today

I don’t have issues with people who choose to devote their lives to God, in fact I think it great that you feel such passion about you religion that you are able to do this, spirituality is an amazing thing that not many care for or understand. But I also have to say to those that this applies to, just because you feel that you have a close relationship with God, or that you do all that your Holy book requires does not give you the right to judge other people!

Some of the meanest things I have heard being said about other people’s sexuality, race, physical appearance, intellect and life circumstances have come out of the mouths of some of the most religious people that I know! How am I or any others then able to truly respect you as a representative of your faith if you are a contradiction to your beliefs?

I feel at peace with the way that I am, the choices that I make and the God that I know, I only ask that you live and let live, do right by others and allow others to make their own choices in life and in faith.

I respect you and your beliefs so please respect mine.

Love Sara (A little lady that believes in the free will of one’s choices). xxx

* All images sourced from Google

Lonely Aquarius

Today @Xstrology said “An #Aquarius woman is able to live by herself without any guy in her life. She is a strong person!”

This is something that I am well aware of, because unlike some people I am more than fine in my own company. When I think about it, in the past couple years I have eliminated a good few people from my personal life as I have little time for bitches, bull-shitters and people with funky spirits, which equals more alone time with moi. But although what @Xstrology said I know and have known to be true about my sign, it doesn’t mean that it doesn’t scare the shit out of me.

Although I consider myself to be a young confident and dare I say independent mamacita, I’m also a female that is a huge believer in love and romance. But unlike some of these independent women out there I believe that as women we need men and that men need women to create a balance that some of us are too scared to admit is missing in our lives.

Yeah, don’t get me wrong, anything that I’ve wanted or needed thus far in life I have got myself or my amazing family have helped or given to me, and the only man that has given me anything or done anything worthwhile for me goes by the name of Dad. I was raised to be confident and get what I want out of life and experience has taught me to not depend on others for things that I really want. But this doesn’t mean that I want to be the old chick in the club working it out on the dance floor Beyonce’s ‘Single Ladies’ or Destiny’s Child’s ‘Independent Woman’ (Lord knows I hate the latter song as it is). One day I would like to be happily married to a sexy man preferably him …

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... But if not, then God, I have faith in you but I’m not afraid to say that I won’t be pissed if you skank me in the sex appeal department and trust that whoever you send to me will be wonderful, because as they say love is Blind. But seriously, please be kind.

I want to have babies, I’m thinking four but after the first bambino my V-Jay-Jay may be telling the number four to F@#! right off. I would also like to have one of those sickeningly beautiful houses filled with photos of all those precious family moments on beaches all over the world of course, and my fridge door will be covered in those painting and drawings by my kids that are complete crap to everyone else but to Mommy and Daddy are complete genius. Yes, this is the type of UN-LONELYNESS that I want all the way up to grandbabies and great grandbabies if the powers that be want to bless me like that. So as for @Xstrology what you said today about my sign isn’t wrong, in fact it’s very right (you're seldomly wrong). The Aquarius woman is very strong indeed, but a life time of batteries just ain’t for me sugar, so I think it may be time to become a serial dater to get that happily ever after ball rolling.

Love Sara (A little Aquarius lady who wants that quirky, romantic, make you jealous kind of love!) xxx

This is a Warning!

Dear Mosquitoes,

It has been five weeks since our first encounter. In week one It was to be expected, even in week two it was still to be expected, in week three you gave me a well deserved break, but then in week four you and your amigos came back for more and now in week five and might I add mid week five you all have bitten me NINE F@#%!*¥ TIMES!!!!

At first I accepted that I was in your territory, so I tried to accept all living creatures including you evil Mother Suckers! I did not kill any of you nor did I attempt to kill any of you, I just sprayed myself with Jungle Formula repellent, wiped my body with OFF! Repellent wipes and covered my body in Lavender oil as an attempt to keep you away so that no one would get hurt, but it seems that the respect that I had for you and your kind was and is not mutual.

So let this be a warning to each and every one of you little F@#!ers, the next one of you that I see whether you try to bite me or not, I am going to kill!!

My once perfectly sun kissed legs are now covered in marks, never mind the fact that before the scaring kicks in I look like the Hulk gone wrong with bites that can easily be mistaken for extra muscles coming out of my ankles, knees, calves and biceps! And on top of that they itch like hell! So as for the first one of you that bit me then flew off and told all your little friends about the fresh blood in town! You will be sorry!!!!!

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