Is You Okay? by GloZell Green

Author:GloZell Green
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2016-05-04T04:00:00+00:00

Not long after, I got recognized in public for the first time. It was at a Costco, by a young girl who followed me from aisle to aisle as I helped myself to the free samples that make Costco on Saturdays the happiest place on earth if you’re still kind of poor (Kirkland cheddar cubes are delicious, #sorrynotsorry).

In those days, I went to Costco every Saturday, so at first I thought maybe the girl went shopping with her mom every Saturday too, and that’s why she was staring at me—because she recognized me as that lady who loved the samples. It turns out that she had actually seen the Push-Up Bra video and watched it, like, fifty times.

I started getting recognized more often after that, and a funny thing began to happen: people would ask about my “GloZell character.” Character? Isn’t this how people act when they’re with their friends or just being themselves? The question confused me. My “on-camera personality” (I’m still not even comfortable saying those words) isn’t a character. It’s not contrived at all. It’s me. In many ways, it’s actually me at my most comfortable and most authentic. Anybody who knows me—going all the way back to Calvary Presbyterian School—isn’t surprised by the person they see in my videos. They know that this is my truest self. They understand when I talk to them about what I do that this is the path I have always belonged on.

I’ve learned since my early YouTube days, and from getting to know other YouTubers and trading stories with them (like comics or moms do), that the question about “my character” is pretty common. “Normal people” struggle to understand people who have big personalities. We aren’t putting on airs, I promise—it’s just the way we are when we let our true selves come out and play. It’s something anyone can do, at any age.

And it’s not just running, jumping, singing, and dancing, like Steve Harvey said. It’s anything—from his partner with the landscaping business in Cleveland, to my mom in Orlando who calls me fifty times a day and makes crazy hats out of stuff, to you and whatever gift God endowed you with and packed in your parachute: if you can figure out that gift, accept your truest self for who it is, and remain open to every path you encounter, then you don’t ever have to be afraid to let it rip!

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