REASONS WHY YOU MUST BE VERY CAREFUL ABOUT LADIES WEARING WAIST BEADS

Waist beads are often worn by African women to point out femininity. It has deeper meanings. However, ladies nowadays wear them as sort of decoration, tracking weight loss and gain, body shaping. Little do they know that these beads symbolise spirituality, protection, womanhood, fertility, sexuality, etc.

Natives have some spiritual beliefs related to the colors of beads embedded within the strings. Egyptian women wore them in those days to allure men while dancing In Africa, the attractiveness of a lady is attached to her buttocks and therefore the beads help women boast this feature. In Northern Nigeria, waist bead is named ‘Jigida’ while the Yoruba people ask it as ‘Bebedi’. Below are a number of the waist colour beads and what they signify: 1. Red Colour Beads This colour signifies sexuality, energy, self-worth, vitality, passion, love, power, desire and vitality. Be scared once you are available contact with any lady wearing a red colour bead. 2. Green Colour Beads It is a logo for harmony, fertility, prosperity, abundance, hope and growth. 3. Gold Colour Beads Gold may be a symbol of wealth, preciousness, power and top quality.

4. White Colour Beads This colour portrays innocence, humility, purity, youth, light, cleanliness, goodness and virginity. 5. Pink Colour Beads It means romance, friendship, sweetness, femininity, kindness, appreciation and tenderness. Please run your life if you meet a woman wearing this color of beads. 6. Black Colour Beads This signifies protection, elegance, authority, depth and ritual. My advise once you meet a woman wearing a black waist bead, run. 7. Purple Colour Beads This colour signifies mystery, luxury independence, magic, spirituality and ambition. 8. Orange Colour Beads Orange colour breeds warmth, success, enthusiasm, attraction and creativity. 9. Blue Colour Beads Blue colour may be a symbol for wisdom, knowledge, loyalty, devotion, trust, peace, faith and healing. 10. Brown Colour Beads It is a color that portrays stability, earth, strength, natural, honesty, comfort and reliability. 11. Silver Colour Beads It is a logo for serenity, grace, insight, glamour, dreams and energy. 12. Yellow Colour Beads It is a logo for energy, calmness, joy, happiness and clarity. 13. Turquoise Colour Beads This colour signifies communication and self-awareness. ***prbxselfnetwork***

THE STORY OF THE WOMAN WHO SAW A MERMAID

The beaches I am used to visiting are the ones I grew up around. These are the beaches carved from the rugged Pacific coastline— chilly beaches featuring big waves, drift wood, caramel-colored sands, hermit crab tidal pools, and sea lions bobbing curiously in the rough surf. It was quite the change of scenery when I moved to the warm climates of Florida to go to school. The beaches in Florida weren't anything like the beaches I grew up building sand castles on. The endless pale sands were fine, the sea was flat and warm, the sky was white, and there were alien flowers growing there. It even smelled completely different. It took some getting used to. I didn't need a vehicle to get around. I could take public transportation wherever I needed to go. This included using a water taxi, which is the same thing as a regular taxi service, only you could hail one at the water's edge and would step into a boat, rather than a car, in order to get to your destination. During one solo adventure in Ft. Lauderdale, I stood at the edge of the canal, waiting for a water taxi to pass by which would shuttle me to the beach. It was midmorning, and the sun was reflecting off the dark waters of the Intracoastal Waterway. That morning, I saw something swimming in the depths of the water, and it was moving closer. I couldn't quite make it out, what with the sun obscuring my view, so I pulled off my sunglasses, and shielded my eyes with the flat of my hand. I saw the tail first. It was gracefully, almost sensually , fanning the water, propelling its body along slowly. There was a creature lurking about in the shallow depths. It was huge, and it freaked me out. Horizontal tail — a mermaid? I leaned forward, as far as I could go without falling in, trying to get a better look. Definitely not a sea lion! Sea lions have flippers. I'd grown up seeing them basking on the dry docks of the Wharf as tourists threw their table scraps to the frenzied, barking melee. However, this thing was sporting a single, horizontal tail, and it was unlike any of those pinnipeds I was used to seeing. Hind-end of a sea lion. And it wasn't a whale. It didn't have the customary blowhole which are unique to cetaceans. In my young mind, that flat, horizontal tail could only mean one thing: MERMAID—definitely mermaid . The animal passed by, and I never did get a good look at the entire thing, but from what I saw, I believed it was a mermaid. Twenty years old, and I was convinced I'd been blessed to have seen a mythical creature of the deep. Days later, I was disappointed to learn it was actually a manatee. Until then, I'd never heard of them before. We don't have manatees in California. I learned that they were an endangered species (at the time) and that my sighting may have been a rare, last glimpse of a species on its way towards extinction.

Luckily, conservation has led to a rise in numbers for certain species, and manatees have made a comeback. Today, they have been bumped off the endangered species list. It's a start. As for mermaids, it's far too late for them. I'm afraid their species has been extinct for quite some time now. ***prbxselfnetwork***