Meli's world

       As most of you may already know, I wasn't 16 and pregnant, like the popular MTV show. Instead I was 16 and married. Yes married before I graduated, or officially got my driving license. Married before I got an actual job and before I knew what marriage was really going to require.     I met my husband my freshman year in high school and for many months only looked at him as a friend to share my "boy" drama with. But after many lunches, conversations, hanging out, inviting him to my church, dancing at my quince, and skipping many electives together, I was in love with my homeboy, my friend. And all of a sudden, all the guys that I was entertaining as potential suitors didn't matter anymore. Not after Emerald called my house on a Tuesday night while I was watching American Idol, to confess his love for me. I remember seeing his family name on the caller I.D and almost falling off my bed to get the phone to tell him my sister wasn't ho...

    Is it me or has the world lost its mind? There’s always certain headlines that grab my attention and usually isn’t for the right reasons. The one that has got me completely baffled is one that is not only making headlines in the news but also filling up my Facebook newsfeed and apparently being retweeted and reposted on Instagram. This picture has gone viral and received over 30,000 likes on the first day it was posted. It is a picture of a felon, his mugshot from the police department's Facebook page where he is being held on 6 felony charges. It seems ladies think this criminal is so good looking, that they wouldn’t mind dating him. Some have even made a facebook fan page for him. They are willing to overlook his felonies and the fact he is being held on $1 million dollar bail. According to his family, he is a married father who is working to put his past behind him. And how many of us don’t have a past that we ar...