We are often encouraged to be Women of character, Women of virtue and Women of substance, however as much as we want to embody all these appellations I believe we are not certain what they mean and what it is to live out being such a woman.
Half the time the title sounds so huge that we become scared to even try to be any of the aforementioned; after much observations and asking around these titles were demystified and became clearer to me.
I am now more than ever convinced that as women, we cannot ignore the cry in our nation, communities’ workplaces and homes to have Woman who are the essence of character, virtue, courage and substance, moreover women who know what it means to be such and live it out every day.
“A woman of character is a woman who can stand by Godly values at the cost of her own benefit”
We have sadly become a Woman who has compromised herself, her values and morals by not grasping 1 thing and that is not knowing for certain what qualifies one to be a woman with these flattering titles.
I asked a few ladies what it means to them to be Women of substance, character, virtue and courage, the results were varied from a woman who is strong willed and stands up for what she believes, to a woman whose life means something and a woman who is able to right a terrible wrong and prevent the end of something good.
” A woman of substance is a woman who has been through a lot but comes out better and stronger.”
Sometimes a woman of character is not the woman we all expect, its sometimes that woman who does not have huge titles and accolades, sometimes that tea lady in the office is a Woman who embodies this type of woman.
We all do not wake up being this kind of woman, it sometimes is a painful journey and a myriad of choices and decision making.
The Quora summed it up so well with the following for me and I would love to leave you with this insert and believe that you will be well on your way to becoming a WOMAN OF SUBSTANCE.
We each make thousands of decisions every day. We choose between urgent and important, between what’s best for us and what’s right, between short and long term betterment, between money and relationships, between ‘giving lip service’ and wholeheartedness, between apathy and commitment, between ‘the self-absorbed’ and ‘the greater good’, between avoiding and accepting responsibility, between risk avoidance and risk management, between a life of safe leisure and a life of challenge, between timidity and courage, between deceit and integrity and between expediency and honour. My guess is that the ‘person of substance’ chooses the ‘less travelled’ latter option at each and every divergence – Quora