Hello friends,
How’s it going?
Yesterday’s article is still with me, that’s how much impact it made. I had no idea where that came from firstly, and secondly, I can’t believe I’ve missed such an important topic but at the same time, I believe the timing was right.
I’m very awake today and nope, coffee has nothing to do with it ?. Let’s begin, whatever this article comes to, just stay with me. I have an intentional reason for this.
You are not who you are. Yes, you are not who you were told you were when you told the class your name on the first day of school, if you have been working on yourself then I’ll let you off the hook, but if you haven’t I am here to tell you that you are not who you think you are.
So, there you are, you were born, God knows what times you were born in. Maybe you were born just after world war two, maybe you were born as a white, black, coloured or Indian. Oh! Boy, here we go…
You were born perhaps as a native North American, you were called Avonaco (not avocado. What? To me it sounds similar ?). Avocado, I mean Avonaco translates to lean bear in native America, or maybe at first, you went from being called native Indian to Hispanic/Latino to finally being called American. Wow! Even I got tired of saying so many things in that sentence that we could potentially be “called”.
Let me pull out something from that line, … or maybe at first, you went from being called native Indian to Hispanic/Latino to finally being called American. This is just one example, perhaps that’s all I’ll use for this article or not. Let’s find out. See that bit in bold “finally being called American”. This, as you know, could still be our present, but it was most definitely our past, to be American means what? Does it mean full, one-hundred percent freedom? Does it mean free from racial prejudice? For many people who immigrated from South America to live in Spain who could finally be called Spanish was attached to freedom, again freedom not prejudice. Were you Spanish before, nope, so what is being Spanish really? It’s just a new piece of identity, it doesn’t undo the fact that you were born in a country on the other side of the world, Peru, for example (this is the current reality). What if the world had no borders and countries had no names? Then what?
At least we all won’t be living in the Amazon getting initiated by hundreds of bullet ants.
Let me pose you a question just to challenge you a bit since we’re on the topic about race. So, what would you call a Brazilian who has African ancestry?
You can find the answer out here as well as read what’s already mentioned in the link about Brazilians having a complex classification system based on the prominence of skin and hair pigmentation, as well as other features associated with the concept of race (raça).
I hope you can see even more why racism has to be ditched.
There has been so much that you have forcefully taken on and you had no choice or option on that. Let’s take the character Saesha from my books The South African: True Colours and The South African: Roamer for instance as an example.
- Born in apartheid South Africa
- Born in a segregated Indian community
- Born as a Hindu girl
- Born as a Gujarati girl
- Born into a family with strong cultural traditions
- Born as a girl (I really wanted to sing Jon Bon Jovi’s and Bryan Adam’s song Born to be wild, just held myself back there for the sake of this article)
- Born in a patriarchal society
- Born in a middle-class family
- Named Saesha according to Gujarati traditions
- Born in a country where English is the first language
- Born in a home where Gujarati is the third language the language that influences her home and her through the elders.
What an Onion! See the layers even before you turn six!
Now here we have a Saesha, you will have to read the books to find out where the false identity comes from but can you see the limitations that are going to be placed on this newborn Saesha who has no idea of the world she is going to live in? If she is lucky enough, she will uncover the whole façade.
To unlearn all that has been placed in the subconscious mind, the belief systems we’ve taken on, the limitations we’ve got but can’t figure out or understand why we got the results we’ve got is where the real work lies, untangling the whole story that if your parents and mine knew better at the time, had freedom, access and insight to better, then they would have done better, so it’s completely no one’s fault, but it’s completely your responsibility, now that I’ve put this at your door to untangle and really find out who you truly are when you peel back the layers. The question is are you going to do it? Will this help you answer that question? What if I said, “Friend, you owe it to yourself?”
There are various programmes you can do, I can put you in touch with people to begin this process, this is if you do find at this point that you want to do this but aren’t sure where to begin. Ultimately the investment you put in yourself will result to the life you want to manifest. Drop me an email if this is something you want to know more about on admin@tdenchpatel.com
I sometimes look at this false identity as an invisible barcode put right on our foreheads with a number (yep, identification number, doesn’t a barcode remind you of the bars of a prison cell?) where you were born, what race you were born in, what culture you were born in, what you should believe, what you shouldn’t believe, the country you belong in, etc. I mean think about it for a second. All our conversations start like the conversation that starts on the first day of school, starting off with your first name and the rest being part of a standard introduction.
Imagine if you weren’t programmed, imagine if you worked on removing the subconscious garbage that wasn’t serving you, found your true identity, potential and purpose? Imagine, how your introduction will sound. For example,
Me: Hello, please to meet you Mr ___________.
I am Tulsi.
Mr _______: What do you do for a living Tulsi?
Me: I am the author of The South African: True Colours book series. Not sure if you have heard of me or seen any of my work? If this is too much, then just remember me as the well-travelled author who broke out of the norm. That should suffice. (as I extend my very humble smile).
Mr ___________: What? I can’t believe I’m talking to the genius herself. Oh! Gosh (with a nice shock on his face and a catchy smile) I believe you have under introduced yourself.
Imagine getting out of the fictional character, your fictional identity that was presented to you when you were growing up by becoming your own person? This is why authenticity and finding your beat is becoming a thing.
Have a think about it. Drop us a comment and let us know what comes up for you?
Yours sincerely,
T. Dench Patel
Thank you for the comments and support. Thank you for offering to donate if there was a donate button on here. I prefer not to take donations. You can support by either purchasing one of my books (Paperback or Kindle), The South African: True Colours, The South African: Roamer or my children’s book Light. These books can be found on Amazon mainly and other sites in your country.
The audiobook for The South African: True Colours is available on iTunes, Apple and Audible. The South African: Roamer and Light will be released soon.
Note: Do keep referring back to this site as much as possible, as I grow, a more profound perspective may form and so I will always come back to each of these articles to re-evaluate them.
