Naturally Free Rai

Naturally: Yes. I am. I am 100% natural....hair that is. No additives, no preservatives, just me. I struggled with my concept of self for so many years. I could not understand who it really was who I was trying to please? But while ending my freshman year at the University of Cincinnati, in 2006, I discovered myself. One day while studying social conditioning, I had an epiphany! It was almost as if the sun started to shine so brightly, right there in my dorm room. I realized I was struggling to satisfy society, and it's expectations and perceptions of me. I am supposed to look, act, and feel a certain way. Why? Because whomever constructed this idea of what a Black woman is supposed to be, told me so. However, this is the part where I begin to laugh. See, one thing I already knew about myself, I am a CONTROL FREAK. I do not want anyone telling me how to look, dress, feel, be, think, ect...Therefore I literally broke

FREE. I decided to no longer let society have its chains on me. No more do I have to conform to the ways of the world in order to be accepted. After all, none of these people who I'm worrying about pleasing will stand with me He comes, or I go, which ever comes first. So how much do "these people" (society) really matter? They don't. Therefore, I decided to live freely ! I am free to be me by all means. I am free. I can care less about what I am "supposed to be" and I am only embracing who I WANT to be. Which is simply ...

Rai.Rai is short for Sarai. I am a music lover who is obsessed with the idea of true Black love. I believe in happiness. I am NOT controlled by the concept of the American dream. Yes I have a degree but I'm no money chaser. I feel can care less for money and artifical things. I can take walks with my ipod playing Erykah Badu and let my mind wonder, and that's good enough for me. I can burn incense all day and listen to Raheem Devaughn and day dream about a man who feels that way about me. I can discuss social issues all day long. I can be open to all types of opinions, yet still hold mine...I can go on, and on, and on...but in a nutshell: I'm just Naturally Free Rai