Today is International Women’s Day and I would like to share with you a piece I wrote in 2011, when I was living in Ghana.
Freedom to choose:
Who to love
Who to marry
Not to marry
Whether to have children
How to dress
To study
To work
To drive
To dance
To sing
What to read
What to say
Where to go
Where to shop
What to buy
Who to spend time with
A religion
No religion
Freedom to choose whatever one wants to do, however one wants to do it, wherever one wants to do it, whenever one wants to do it.
Most of us are blessed to have this exquisite freedom of choice and we spend our lives taking it for granted.
Many of our sisters don’t have these choices, simply by virtue of their place of birth, their culture or family.
It could have been us.
