Vitiligo Spotlight!
Wanakee Hill, ND, editor
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TheWellnessWell.net puts the Vitiligo Spotlight! on Ogo Maduewesi
Ogo works tirelessly to promote vitiligo awareness in Africa and around the world.
Ogo, in her own words:
Living Positively with Vitiligo
I welcome you all to Positive Attitude to life especially as it concerns us women and our approach to it all. Till you experience it or find yourself in a helpless situation where no-one can help, you wouldn’t feel or understand how hard it can be for one to struggle to live positively in the midst of trials, challenges & difficulties such as Vitiligo.
‘Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% what you make of it’ I am starting with my life experience and having been in contact with persons going through some sort of depression and low self esteem. I have a skin condition called Vitiligo, a very disfiguring devastating condition one can come down with, where your appearance is being threatened with no solid help in a world where physical appearance is being celebrated more than anything.
I am talking about Vitiligo because that’s one great challenge I had with my attitude and approach to life. I started thinking about what bothered me most about having Vitiligo at a point precisely in 2006, after all, it is more of a cosmetic problem than anything else. Why worry about what other people think? When it has not changed who I am and the way God sees you who look at the heart and not the physical. Vitiligo may have knocked us down but it hasn’t knocked us out!
I just made up my mind to stop thinking of Vitiligo, what people think or how they react. I realized I have enough potential willpower to do that if I really want to. When you are in control of your mind, you can have control over what gets you down or affects you. We do not fully comprehend what we can do with our emotions, when we control them, we have willpower. When they control us the results are often disastrous.Vitiligo is not what I brought on myself; there is neither known cause nor cure let alone prevention. I prayed depressive thoughts out of my mind and started attacking the problem constructively.Please understand with me, stare, and comments (no matter how spiteful or unfriendly); does not leave a puncture on anyone. Hear what you want to hear and digest that which you choose to digestI came to a place in which I realized that I had to live with Vitiligo (though I believed from the first day that it’s temporal). I thought that if anyone has a problem with the way I look, then that is their problem, not mine as Vitiligo is not what I brought on myself. I never bothered about people that walked out of my life because of Vitiligo. I saw people looking at me in horror or disgust as persons having bigger problems than I will ever have.
Beauty queens, celebrities and Stars are all at some point in their life being rejected equally, its not so much about what the society expects one to live or act like that matters, but accepting you for you, being true to you, living right and not trying to live to please people’s expectation of or struggle to please all.
I learnt to do what make me happy, wear what I am comfortable in and really suits, go out to any place I wish, I started dictating for Vitiligo as it used to dictate to me when to go, what to wear, where to go, etc. IT WORKED!
I learnt to Love and Accept myself for me. What people think or feel about my look is the least of my worries now, I thank God I have something am doing that is keeping me busy and my mind occupied always. The truth is that I don’t remember Vitiligo often these days, am just concerned about majority out there living with this condition who is really finding it hard to live normal life especially the women.
I have learnt that Self Acceptance is key! Can you give what you don’t have? I have accepted me for me and what I give and present is the accepted me. If I give the rejected me people will still receive me as I have presented me. Can’t possibly worry myself anymore about what the next persons thinks about my look, funny enough I may just be far healthier than the person trying to make me uncomfortable with stares & comment.
People’s reaction to my looks is no longer an issue.
Remember that everything in life happens for a reason and that we never really know when the happenings are positive or negative. Sometimes events that are seen as negatives are simply lessons in disguise. Sometimes we need to learn these lessons in order to rise to a higher level of awareness.Life is tough (full of ups and down), no doubt about that, but no toughness can be as tough as genuine hope. One of the toughest things in the world is a mind filled with hope and that we need more than any other!
I have talked about Vitiligo and me here, you maybe going through some kind of challenges that is affecting your attitude negatively; one thing I will leave you with is that nothing can bring you down without your permission!
There is always a positive & negative side to that situation; you have the right to choose…..
I saw it from the Positive angle! I just learnt, how about you?
Hope this helps!
Ogo Maduewesi
Ogo MaduewesiFounder/Executive Director Vitiligo Support and Awareness Foundation (VITSAF)+234806 363 8030, +234702 516 5280
vitsupng@gmail.com, info@vitsaf.orgwww.vitsaf.org
We conquer .........with Positive Attitude
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