It’s My Birthday: Me At 4, Er 25, Looking Back At My Sweet 16 Self

30 Jan 2019

It’s My Birthday: Me At 4, Er 25, Looking Back At My Sweet 16 Self

Ragga then and now

Man, if only this lil girl here (Left) at sweet 16 — looking at life through rose colo(u)red glasses — knew the challenges ahead, starting with the tragic death of her best friend a year later and how that would forever change her!

But through love lost, love gained, a myriad of dreams — some broken, some deferred, some of the best fulfilled, from tiny Bridgetown, Barbados to the Big Apple and now the powerful U.S. capital, she persevered with an unrelenting faith in God.

Yes, sometimes the tears still come, and increasingly those pesky grey hairs and wrinkles she chooses to call dimples, but she never lets anything or anyone steal her joy, or that smile.

As always, she gives thanks, especially for the woman (Right) she’s become, and above all, for the blessing to awake today to celebrate another birthday — her “perpetual 25th birthday.”🙏🏾 #GodisGood

~ I Keep it Irie ~

Posted in Roots & Culture and tagged Bajan, Barbados, Birthday, CaribScribe, celebration, dreadlocks, I Keep it Irie, Journalist, perpetual 25th birthday, sweet 16

5 thoughts on “It’s My Birthday: Me At 4, Er 25, Looking Back At My Sweet 16 Self”

Brian on February 10, 2019 at 22:00 said:

Happy birthday MaQuita

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- CaribScribe on February 11, 2019 at 07:17 said:
  
  Thank you.😊🙏🏾
  
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ainsleycarter on March 27, 2019 at 16:47 said:

You just don’t age at all ..

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Tara on July 8, 2022 at 05:31 said:

This was a llovely blog post

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- CaribScribe on July 14, 2022 at 00:52 said:
  
  Thank you!🙏🏾
  
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I love New York, but my heart has a Caribbean beat. It pulsates to the traditions of my people. Attuned to the rhythms of this City, I stay West Indian to the bone. I reflect. I analyze. I speak my mind. ~ I Keep it Irie ~