We are Beautiful.

Reading about girls of young age being forced to marry a man who could never, will never have true love or respect for her is absolutely unnecessary. Heart breaking. To be in a culture that has no value for a girl, a woman. I cannot, will not ever support.

We are beautiful. We are strong and inspiring, loving and wondrous creatures to behold. If we were not, neither boys or men would even find themselves staring in awe at us, nor find themselves having any desire for us. Oh yes. We are of great value.

I have rarely met men that think of women as just another thing to hunt down and stick up on their wall. But unfortunately, even here in freedom, they exist. Who are these men raised by mothers and grandmothers and have daughters of great wealth in their eyes to devalue the one that stands beside him, for him in times of hardship carrying her weight and most likely the weight of several others also? What man is this that behaves in such a way as to physically harm for minutes of empty ambition and hollow glory?

A coward. Fearful of his own existence, powerless to accept his own choices that led him here, ashamed and filled with regret feeling forced to blame others. This is no man. This is a shadow of ill fate.

A true man is never ashamed of his misfortunes or his mistakes. He faces them with dignity and self respect, working hard to correct wrongs and always willing to pay his consequences. He is the one standing on the sidelines watching her work, looking at her with sweet kindnesses in his heart and true affection that even he cannot bring himself to lose control but rather feels a sense of protection over her and would sooner challenge anyone in her entire life that dare hurt her in any way. This man holds her heart and her mind in high regard, sometimes higher than his own but at the very least she is his equal. His friend.

May all girls and women, all boys and men see their greatness and live up to it. Not only for themselves, but for each other.