The title sounds silly right?Read it first before you pass judgment.
For most women,myself included,being on my period brings about changes
in my body which are caused by my hormones shifting to produce enough
blood just in case I do the right thing and give my body the baby it
yearns for.
Don't act surprised.What do you think a fibroid is? It's your body
trying to fill up it's womb. Sounds disgusting,abi?but na true yarn.
As a ten year old, i yearned for my period.I yearned for my womanhood
to be completed.You wonder what a ten year old knew about being a
woman abi?I was an early bloomer.I had curves at 9 and the tailors
always teased me.By curves,i mean perky breasts and my hips had
come.All that was left was my period.
My Ghanian neighbour,Aunty Edith,was looking forward to my period
coming and told me it would mean I had become a woman.I was eager to
become a woman.
We had our end of year party in Unilag staff school,the last I'd
have.I was eleven and a half years old.That night,a friday in
august,my period came.My sister had taught me how to wear a pad the
previous year,but she was away in boarding school.So,i went to my
father,who is my friend and i told him..he was so embarrassed,but he
went out to buy me a pack of simple sanitary pads.I can still remember
the yellow packaging.
I began this post because i was having menstrual pain,and was hating
my period.I like my period now.If for nothing else,it's a monthly
reminder that I'm still a woman.
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"Hope" is the thing with feathers-that perches in the soul and sings
the tune without words- and never stops- at all.
Emily Dickinson.
