Attention Seeking

Looking at this Ayesha Curry thing has my Facebook timeline raging. But I have been making random statements about it since just like the other folks. Because her stating that she doesn't get the same kind of attention that her husband gets, that whole concept just took Facebook by storm. But today, it made me think of something from a few years back.

This!

I know a woman who had an abundance of male attention. She was very friendly and open to it. There were Men saying great thing about her, whether she was around or not around. In the same breath they would despise her boyfriend and state what they would do if they had her or a woman like her. But outside of all of this attention, she wasn't happy with who she was at the time.

This was a woman who I would talk to 4 hours, sometimes about nothing, but other times about her specific situation. And one day she informed me that she just wasn't happy, though her relationship at the time mother okay. And she was getting all of this attention. The stuff she was dealing with in her personal life, didn't reflect in the eye of the general Public. She was dealing with school, in the midst of changing Majors because she wasn't happy. She had things wrong with her vehicle, the guy she was with wasn't necessarily good to her, but she loves him. Also, she just felt that when she was out and about in front of people, she had to put on a facade to hide what she really was feeling.

I constantly found myself on the phone with her affirming things that she already knew, but I think she needed to hear them from me because I was a good friend, and she respected my view. I wasn't speaking on behalf of the whole male Society. But I felt that she should know some of the things that were being said while she wasn't around, and for the most part they were good. This is the woman we all fell in love with visually.. And I'm glad I got to know her personally, so that in itself made me love her a little bit more LOL. She was one of my best friends and I respect her to this day.

She was the center of attention for all the right reasons, but the person she really wanted it from, didn't really see it that way. But that is not all, she just needed a supporter that was really there for her, and not just a fan. That is a woman I wanted to be there for, but we were hundreds of miles away.

I don't really have an endpoint to this, but I was reminded of this situation because of the current topic is brought to you by Jada Pinkett Smith' red table.