Our dignity as human beings

In 2018, part of a sensitization campaign for homeless women held by Passerelle, I spent 3 hours on the streets in Port Louis and prior to that I was completely disguised by a team so I physically embodied a homeless woman. Two persons from the organizing team kept a close eye on me during these 3 hours. My experience as a homeless woman was in truth guarded and protected and I cannot and will not take ownership of a reality that is not mine.

 

For 3 hours, I was mocked, taunted, shamed, and reminded by people passing by that I must have done bad things to have ended on the street, that my life was not a life of quality and dignity. That day I realized how we confuse humans’ actions with worthiness and dignity.

 

Two weeks later, I embarked on a project with ENL foundation for the women of Bazart Kreasion, I met and sat in circles with a group of women who were previously on the streets and they were then in a half-way home. The biggest challenge for these women was to sit in togetherness with other women, their perceptions of themselves and how they perceived other women were perceiving them. Their reactions were visceral, nausea, headaches, shivers, tremor just by landing in a safe space in the company of what they called “women with dignity”.

 

One repeated conversation that came from the women who have been on streets was “their dignity”, the belief that they would have to work, to build and buy their human dignity. Believing that “I have to buy my dignity in eyes of society” is a limited belief that hinders the flow of life and it is a belief has been running in our societies for generations.

 

Truth is, “our dignity remains untouched regardless of our actions.” Our inherent, absolute and final worth and value do not depend on any actions or external success. Try buying your dignity, you will employ your energy against yourself attempting to reach some place out there that does not exist, because you are your dignity embodied breathing, moving and alive.

 

As humans we will take actions that will limit us, mess our life, and impact people directly and indirectly. Still none of these say that “I am unworthy.” To be human means I am born with my inherent, absolute, and final value and this is enough.

 

In my work and walk, I meet women and men who are struggling to buy themselves back into worthiness, appreciation, and inclusion and this is unnatural to our nature. There is no such thing as unworthy, unneeded in nature except to the judgements of the human mind. There is no buying back of worthiness, there is instead a constant upgrading of our inner world, our beliefs, our values, our memories, our references and much more.

 

As we upgrade internally, we experience the rippling in the external world. There comes a point for the sanity of our life, we have to learn to separate and distinguish behavior identity/roles and the human being.

 

On this journey of growth, we will be called to move beyond our actions of past, it will ask of us meeting ourselves and others exactly as we are, to agree to who and what we are and what we did, it is through this meeting beyond our ideas or wrong or right we are able to take ownership of our inner powers and step into our worthiness.

 

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May we remember to go back in times to gather treasures that have been on the wait for us.

 

Love from my heart to yours

 

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