Jada and her prominent cheek bones were on Arsenio Hall last week and talked much about her connection with TuPac and how they had more of a father-daughter dynamic because of how protective he was with her, but one of the things I found extremely interesting was her talk about how she had an opportunity to work with her hubby Will long before they linked up as grown adults.
Initially, she tried out for the role of (one of) Will's girlfriends and was told she was too short. Then, later on after her acting career had blossomed a little more, she was offered the role and turned it down.
She said she is so thankful that she did turn it down because she wouldn't be married to him today. Will was married to his first wife, Sheree at this time and she confessed that neither of them were ready for one another.
Which made me think about relationships and the way things evolve.
Many of us spend so much time worrying about the outcome of things that we don't allow ourselves to embrace the present moment and the good things about it. We get caught up in what other people have to say about things, what we see in the media and it brainwashes us in to thinking we have to act a certain way, look a certain way, have certain things in our lives in order to be happy or fulfilled when the reality is, all of us have to define that for ourselves.
Part of that means to really shut off from the distractions of social media, friends, family, TV, etc. to truly know what makes us happy and what makes us feel alive.
I say all of that because there are a lot of unhappily single people out here who develop a bitter way of thinking because of so many external factors. They might have hang ups with specific people or situations when really, you have no idea if things are meant to be the way they are at the present moment.
I don't know how many times something may have happened in my past and then in retrospect I am thankful and humbled that I went through it because even though the period may have been difficult, I came out of the situation a better person than before. I became smarter, sharper, more seasoned to handle the world.
Sometimes it's meant for us to have things or not have things at any given time because for one, we should live in the present moment and enjoy that and secondly, we don't know if the current state of pause with something could be preparation for that golden hour of something anticipated.
I truly appreciate what I lack now because it builds me up to acknowledge and GENUINELY BE THANKFUL what I will gain when the time is right.
Side Note: She really didn't have to collagen pump those cheek bones. Damn Jada. I don't get why the pretty ones mess their faces up like that.
