Sepia Prime Woman Digital Magazine March 2014 | Page 5

Frankly Speaking
Why Can’t We All Just Get Along?
Stephanie Franklin

While on my evening commute home
on the train, I sat next to an elderly
woman who for the duration of the
ride would look at me smiling and
then go back to looking out of the
window. Now this should have really
creeped me out, but I did not have the
hair-raising chill, and besides, all of
the other seats were full. As I
gathered my things to prepare to get
off the train, she looked at me again
smiling and said, “You are so pretty.”
I must admit that I was little taken
aback because I was told this by
another woman! I’m sure you’re
wondering why I should be surprised,
right?

If reality T.V (Housewives of
anything -- Atlanta, New York,
Chicago and anywhere else), Really
Bad Girls or Dance Moms, is any
indication of the relationship that
women have with one another, we are
doomed as a species! We live for
drama and act like two-year olds
having tantrums when we feel we
aren’t being heard or getting our way.
I am amazed at the trivial things we
get angry and fight about and how we
will put ourselves in demoralizing
positions just to get the attention of
people who don’t deserve it.
Competition and comparison are
perpetuated throughout our society in
the forms of social media, TV and
dare I say it, even in the church:
“Who wore it best, who looks better,
who sang better, who danced better
etc”. We place ourselves in seats to
be judged by others who sometimes
have no mercy on our feelings, just to
have a shot at fame and fortune. We
have so lost our sense of identity that
we would rather settle for a piece of
another person than to exercise
patience and wait for who has been
purposed for us.
Women were divinely created with a
survival skill unmatched by anything.
Women were created with a super

Sepia Prime Woman

March 2014