I’m the Queen Bee!
Last weekend as a gift to celebrate my launch and toast, my husband bought me a Pandora bracelet. I was so excited. There were two beads on it. One was a bead representing faith, love, and hope, and the other was a Queen Bee. He said he got me the Queen Bee because I am the Queen Bee of our household. He said that his mother only gave the title of Queen Bee to certain women. Women who took care of business. Women who new how to help manage their households and could hold it down no matter what. Wow! What a compliment! So, I started thinking about how in the media there are a lot of women who refer to themselves as Queen B’s, meaning Queen B*tch’s. Unlike this new thing of calling yourself and other women b*tch as a compliment or in a joking manner, I have absolutely no desire to describe myself, let alone anybody I consider a friend, such a name. So, I decided to look up what a Queen Bee really is and here is what I found:
A Queen Bee is an adult, mated female that lives in a honey bee colony or hive; she is usually the mother of most, if not all, the bees in the hive. The queens are developed from larvae selected by worker bees and specially fed royal jelly. If not for being heavily fed royal jelly, the queen larva would have developed into a regular worker bee. ~Wikipedia
This got me to thinking! The only thing that separates a Queen Bee from a worker bee is the fact that she was fed “royal jelly” exclusively which allowed her to further develop into a Queen instead of a regular worker. Hmmm….. So then I got to thinking about women. It is true that every woman is not a “Queen Bee”. And really, what separates us is what we feed ourselves. If you feed on mess, you are bound to be just a regular “worker”. Mess can be a lot of things like: bitterness, anger, hatred, discontentment, unhappiness, complaining, sexual promiscuity, always minding somebody else’s business, and the list goes on. If you feed on mess (negativity), you’ll always be a worker; a woman that is in the process of workin’ on something and never getting anything accomplished. You’ll always be workin’ on your attitude and still being just as “stank” as you were 5 years ago. (Don’t try to act like you don’t know what I mean when I say stank!) You’ll always be workin’ on your marriage and you will still be in the same unhappy jacked up relationship you were in 7 years ago. You’ll always be workin’ on steering your children in the right direction and still have the same “Bebe Kids” that nobody wants to watch! Now I don’t say all of this meaning Queen Bee’s don’t have work to do! Because we do! It’s just the outcome is different. Our outcome is different because of what we put into ourselves. A Queen Bee can see the fruit of her labor. A Queen Bee is too busy taking care of her own household to be concerned about what is going on in someone else’s. Queen Bees have the ability to focus on what’s important and know how to keep the “main thing” the “main thing”. There may be a few busy bees that think they have what it takes to take over the colony. But, if you are a Queen Bee, there is really no need to worry. They are a few gallons short of “royal jelly”. Unlike real life, it is not too late to become a Queen Bee. If you desire to be a Queen Bee just change your eating habits. Start feeding on humbleness, happiness, joy, wisdom, truth, unselfishness, love, and a host of other positive things. Then you can turn that hoe (garden tool) in for a crown (there may have been a slight pun intended thereJ) and become the Queen Bee that you were truly created to be!
Javonne G.
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