LIFE Parallels

I am a FIRM believe in the concept that says that PICTURES are worth 1000 words. But being that I'm such an analytical THINKER, Reader, Researcher, Talker, and Blogger I must write! So I got the JET in the MAIL today. I was planning on doing so many different things but as soon as I read the cover I was SIDETRACKED. I couldn't help myself! I thumbed through the magazine to the table of contents and found the cover article containing the UPDATE that I've been waiting on! What's been going on with Miss Keyshia Cole I had been wondering! SHE is such an INSPIRATION to me. To those of you who don't like her voice, personality or any of the above I can understand that. I say that because there are many who either LOVE, Like Me or are somewhere on either spectrum.

Being that I am ATTEMPTING to TURN over A new leaf in regards to my negative/pessimistic view of life I am going to TRY to LOOK from the prospective that my life glass is HALF Full rather than HALF Empty... Ok with all that out, lets get back on track to what I'm actually writing about today... Keyshia Cole!!! As I was reading the lead/intro (lead-part of the story that's supposed to catch the readers Attention) to the article I was struck. I thought to myself..."I could have written" this or this could be about me with a few minor adjustments. Rather than making those adjustments I will simply write my critique of the article and being that those of you who read my BLOG or know me should be able to use your deductive reasoning skills and connect the dots of her story to my story. So I guess that may mean you have to do a bit of homework or either flip through the Rolodex of your mind to figure out why I would relate to the story of Keyshia Cole. I'm going to pick out a few KEY QUOTES and commentary from the article. You just might see why I personally SEE so MANY life Parallels! Hence the title of this particular rant/blog article/or whatever title you want to give to this written expression of what's going on in my mind...

• Moving forward.... Ok the intro to the article says the following: Keyshia Cole says she's in a great space these days.
  
• "Life is good. I understand me as a woman." Her life appears calm. She had distanced herself from a lot of drama --- some of it family drama--- she says.
  
• Her mother, Frankie, is a former drug addict. As a child, Cole was placed in a foster home and later adopted in Oakland, California.
  
• She is also establishing a foundation to help young women. She says she wants women faced with challenges and a troubled past to know there is hope.
  
• "You don't have to worry, you can make it," Cole says. "My struggle wasn't easy, but I kept the faith and I made it." She revels that her relationship with her mother is "cordial".
  
• While she won't be specific about what happened in her relationship with her mother, Cole says to JET, "Things went down that I really wasn't that happy about."
  
• But says she's learned some new things this year. "You have to let people be themselves. Don't try to make them you." Frankie told JET: "We've always been friends first, but we have our ups and downs. I have to learn how to conduct myself in a motherly manner, that's the only problem she has with me."
  
• Neffy (Keyshia's Sister) told JET: "No matter what we go through, we are family."
  

The next part of the article transitions into Keyshia's Relationship background on the couple

• How they ended up together-Keyshia told JET she recalls the meeting that led to her relationship: She said, "somebody want to meet you," Cole says, telling the story of the introduction. "I was so, like, I'm over it." I don't want to go through it.
  
• But he won her heart by some of the things he would text me and email me, like Bible quotes and things that consumed him as a person in his everyday life. I liked the fact that he is a God-fearing man and has his head on right."
  
• According to Jet: They are planning a wedding date, she says. "We are talking about it. We have to schedule around our schedules. Cole's fans are in for a treat with Calling All Hearts. She has really mixed it up with strong melodies and some hip-hop sounds. She takes you to church on Thank You as she thanks God for her many blessings. She started recording the CD before she fell in love with Gibson, so there are a few "heartbreak" songs. "There's the old Keyshia and the new Keyshia," she says. "He says it feels good for me not to be a male-basher," Cole says. "He says it feels good to hear growth and hear something different." * End of JET article
  

NOW on to my comments! Notice the Caption on the JET cover: New Mama, NO DRAMA...

I could be on this cover and it would read: NEW Purpose, NO DRAMA: Moving Forward with God's Plan, AU Grad School (Prayerfully Summer 2010), The Mary Kay Factor, Music (My CD Project: I CRY Out: Release Date My 28th Birthday Weekend if all goes according to plan)!!!!

*As you can SEE My life is quite busy and will continue to be busy! But I'm UP for the Challenge!

I bet you thought I was going to rant and rave about the obvious LIFE Parallels! Ha, Surprise I didn't! This is a HUGE attempt not to be negative in my writing or blogging.... How am I doing? I would say I'm making small steps towards making a change in my MINDSET...
Do you See the LIFE Parallels?