Now you may have noticed or you may have not. Fear, not Maryiam Sanyang has noticed and I’m about to bring it to light, throughout my childhood and my teenage years being dark skinned was not the “Bees Knees” and it wasn’t the most desired attribute in an ideal woman. Now you can understand my […]
You’re probably thinking “what is this random video link on Maryiam’s blog post today?”. Well let me tell you what it is, this is one of the many songs that slowly brought me out of my funk. You know how people say music has an effect on them, well this song had an affect on […]
As you can see in the infographic above I carried out some research, now you are probably wondering why this has anything to do with me and my blog. This has everything to do with me being who I am and hence why I started this blog. I am every part of the statistic, not that shocking as this is the norm for many people I know or that I have heard about and it was about time light was shed on these situations. If I didn’t look into this I would have been apart of the problem, those who know that there are young people going through this and choose not to raise awareness nor educate themselves further about the situation, as I know how it feels from experience to have my problems ignored I couldn’t do the same. Even though I cannot personally go out and meet the people within the statistic shown I thought I could make a blog post and share it amongst my people as a step in the right direction.
Sit here today and write about what I have been through and what I have experienced to shape me into the woman that I am today. In primary school, I wasn’t your typical girl, picture a dark skinned, fairly tall girl for her age who wore a scarf and was a buzzing tom-boy all in one. That was who I was and I struggled with it but mainly because I was larger than everyone when I say everyone I mean, everyone. The boys were scared of me due to my height (I think was due to the fact that they were jealous of my height LOL!).
The girls well they accepted me for who I am but obviously, they could tell I wasn’t into the same things there were such as running to the corner of the playground and performing the latest single released by Girls aloud or the Sugababes. I was more into playing with bayblades and doing cartwheels in the grass and getting my tracksuit dirty with grass stains. I honestly think I became a tomboy due to how close I was with my little brother and tried to play catch up with him, I should blame him for my struggles in primary school really.
But as you can see I’ve made it through my tomboy ordeal and many other obstacles that I had to face in terms of learning to accept who I was, rather than altering who I was for people to then begin to accept me. It was not an easy journey I am still embarking on it as I type, I face new challenges each and everyday just when I think I have conquered one.
Throughout this blog, I will be taking you through memorable moments in my life that have raised me up, as well as moments that caused my confidence and self-belief to plummet.
This is only the beginning I cannot wait to open up and touch on subjects such as social media and how celebrity lifestyles have had a huge impact on the way I thought about the world whilst growing up.
