Thank you Vanessa... wow, just amazing. To feel so at peace with yourself that you no longer feel it at all.
Even from a decade ago, your "Resonance" still resonates. The poetry was beautiful, as are you.
Thank you for bringing us together here, and staying to watch over us. You have so many daughters, so many little sisters. So many new friends xxx
I’ll qualify my response by acknowledging that I have not fully transitioned. Still live certain parts of my life presenting as male. But I have at the same time come out to some friends and colleagues, and live openly as a woman in my day to day life.
My observation is that its just life...and I am struck at times by little thought I give to it. Its just being myself.
Well since I am still pretending to be a man my womanhood feels like a fleeting daydream the closer, I get the further away my goal of being my true self. Felling like a woman to me is being able to express my femineity to those around me it would be so liberating Oh, to be caring and empathetic to those around me to do for others without asking for anything in return to be nurturing motherly! Oh, to be a woman must be heavenly!!!
Barbra
Hi Vanessa,
The title of this post sums it up for me. I love the simplicity it conveys; not that there is anything simple about being a woman.
"Womanhood, it feels like . . . nothing." I am no where near this nirvana, but in my mind this would be the ultimate achievement of my transition. Just being a woman, nothing else, but a whole human being.
Finally being me. No pink fog, no endless mind chatter, gone is the constant sense of loss, of envy, heartbreak and on and on.
Would some of those same emotions still be part of my life? No doubt, but I can only imagine how much more powerfully I could manage them if I faced them as a whole person, a woman focused, rather than a woman fractured.
Thank you for the inspiration.
Kindly,
Charlene