Yvonne Mingo
CONVERSATIONS WITH MINGO
By Yvonne Mingo
Copa Style Magazine Relations Columnist
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CONVERSATIONS WITH MINGO
MINGO...The last name of my father. A Native American whose parents are descendants of Blackfoot and Seminole Indian and Egyptian bloodlines. This is Who I Am. Moore…the last name of my mother. A Bostonian whose parents are descendants of Irish, German, Haitian and Penobscot Indian bloodlines. This Is Who I am. I am an empath who loves to #ShareMoreLove because (I AM LOVE) from a family of many bloodlines. Conversations with MINGO comes from My Spirit.
Conversations with MINGO plans to bring to you content that is thought provoking as well as unique. I want to stimulate your minds, make you laugh, challenge you on topics that may not be very comfortable but necessary to bring to light. But my deepest desire is to SHARE LOVE with you. Today, this article is to make you Laugh, Smile, and look at a platform if you haven't already!
WE are living in a climate where people are so isolated that the world has created a NEW WAVE in TOUCHING ONE ANOTHER. A perfect example is TikTok! People are connecting with one another all over the world while having a blast doing so! I must admit, I was skeptical at first until a girlfriend told me to try it. Well, what I found is that using this platform just for fun was helping me to release stress, frustration, feelings of isolation, loneliness, etc. One might say that this platform is “Just What the Doctor Ordered! A new way to express Laughter…. Laughter…. Laughter!!! Crazy Right?
MINGO Says, “Get In there...Yeah Yeah” like the music legend V.I.C. WOBBLE says in his song! We really have no choice but to reinvent ourselves. While some of us are “Getting out There!!” to socialize, many of us are “Staying in There” trying to find new ways to “Reach Out and Touch Someone.” Also, this platform has bridged the gap between the younger and older generations to just enjoy PEOPLE! We see elderly people, mimicking the younger Gangsta Generation for fun! Also, the African American community having fun imitating Country Western artists by doing voice-overs of the most popular songs! But now, GOING VIRAL ON TikTok will get you a Duo with some of the most popular legends in the music industry while you are at home! Now that will take your mind off the isolation to feelings of Exhilaration!
So, how does MINGO see it? In some brilliant way, this platform has afforded the ability for humanity to laugh at itself, AND MAN OH MAN….DO WE! Content that is shared by millions of people sharing their own personal experiences for everyone to see and enjoy through Reels! Everyone from Celebrities to Millionaires to Billionaires to Regular Average Wonderful People! Somehow…this platform TikTok has given us a feel of safety while we share some of our most intimate, personal, private episodes of our lives with the world! This is something that really has never happened on this kind of level before and there is no need to be part of a person’s “Friends Group” to witness this amazing, phenomenal explosion of LOVE! People are learning the culture and interests of their distant fellow humans who live on the other side of the globe! We are seeing children imitating their heroes which we would have never seen such private special moments in an intimate family setting. I love to watch children in other parts of the world and be amazed at how very similar they all really are! All children portraying their favorite Anime Show characters; little girls portraying male heroes and little boys having fun being girl gender heroes and/or villains all the while having fun and not getting teased or discouraged because it’s inappropriate to do so. I am seeing people of all backgrounds LIKE each other’s posts because they find amusement and interest in the videos not their gender, sexuality, or skin color! Yes, sometimes this happens…. but the success of TikTok is based on HAPPINESS and people just sharing fun, being silly, promoting their talents and loving one another!
NOW…let’s explore another angle! Did I mention, educating our minds with video content easy to find in one place? People in professional careers use TikTok through acting out skits and having fun sharing them with the world! Plus, all the while gaining free advertising for their businesses! WOW, just refreshing and brilliant advertising!! A DEFINITE BOOST FROM THE OLD BORING ADS WE HAVE SEEN OVER AND OVER FOR DECADES!
Did I mention how this platform has made PARENTS COOL!!!! Shout out to all the Parents! Before TikTok, parents were seen by their children as an Embarrassment, Aliens, even Strangers! Now, kids are TikTok’ing with their parents in videos and connecting like they never connected before! CHILDREN ARE HAVING FUN tolerating their Boring Parents…because WE ARE ALL COOL NOW! THANKS, TikTok!!
Cool Parents People!! WELL, WHO KNEW! ALL WE HAD TO DO IS MAKE A FOOL OF OURSELVES WHILE HAVING A BLAST DOING SO! Talk about Medicine for the Soul! Laughter is the Cure for All Evil and Boringness!
So… I SAY TO OUR COVID-19 ON LOCKDOWN SELVES! LET’S MIMIC THE GROUP, TWISTED SISTER…AND SING IT TOGETHER! “WE’VE NOT GONNA TAKE IT, OH NO, WE AIN’T GONNA TAKE IT, WE’RE NOT GONNA TAKE IT ANYMORE!!!!”
THE INFAMOUS, DAVID BOWIE said it best in his song… “LET’S DANCE, PUT ON OUR RED SHOES AND DANCE THE FLOOR.” MINGO Says…LET’S DO IT ON TIKTOK! Even though the woman in the song is feeling blue, David Bowie still encourages her to dance anyway. Therefore, LET’S DANCE ANYWAY AND SHARE LOVE WHILE DOING SO!! LET’S DANCE through all the tragedy; LET’S DANCE through everything that is causing us stress, pain and depression. We must find a way out.
Like PRINCE said in his song 1999! Say, say, 2000-00, party over Oops, out of time. So tonight, I’m gonna party like it’s 1999.” Oh wait…we did survive past that year of predicted disaster! Lol However, the point PRINCE was making war geared to the threat of war, destruction, and the end of humanity. This is the same threat Americans, and the world are facing today in the war with Russia and the Ukraine.
We are all facing these uncertain times throughout the world. Well, I guess we all should just take PRINCE’s advice because PARTYING IS GOOD FOR THE SOUL even if we are all in our Selfie-Cams, on Zoom or Cell Phones, Marco Polo, and the list goes on and on!!! SEE, THERE’S STILL HOPE PEOPLE, Mind over Matter Baby!
COVID can’t touch me now…well not in our fantasy world we all create on Tik-Tok!
So, let’s get out of our Mental Prisons and come out and play and enjoy life while Sharing More Love❤
Much L❤ve, MINGO
CONVERSATIONS WITH MINGO
MINGO...The last name of my father. A Native American whose parents are descendants of Blackfoot and Seminole Indian and Egyptian bloodlines. This is Who I Am. Moore…the last name of my mother. A Bostonian whose parents are descendants of Irish, German, Haitian and Penobscot Indian bloodlines. This Is Who I am. I am an empath who loves to #ShareMoreLove because (I AM LOVE) from a family of many bloodlines. Conversations with MINGO comes from My Spirit.
Conversations with MINGO plans to bring to you content that is thought provoking as well as unique. I want to stimulate your minds, make you laugh, challenge you on topics that may not be very comfortable but necessary to bring to light. But my deepest desire is to SHARE LOVE with you. Today, this article is to make you Laugh, Smile, and look at a platform if you haven't already!
WE are living in a climate where people are so isolated that the world has created a NEW WAVE in TOUCHING ONE ANOTHER. A perfect example is TikTok! People are connecting with one another all over the world while having a blast doing so! I must admit, I was skeptical at first until a girlfriend told me to try it. Well, what I found is that using this platform just for fun was helping me to release stress, frustration, feelings of isolation, loneliness, etc. One might say that this platform is “Just What the Doctor Ordered! A new way to express Laughter…. Laughter…. Laughter!!! Crazy Right?
MINGO Says, “Get In there...Yeah Yeah” like the music legend V.I.C. WOBBLE says in his song! We really have no choice but to reinvent ourselves. While some of us are “Getting out There!!” to socialize, many of us are “Staying in There” trying to find new ways to “Reach Out and Touch Someone.” Also, this platform has bridged the gap between the younger and older generations to just enjoy PEOPLE! We see elderly people, mimicking the younger Gangsta Generation for fun! Also, the African American community having fun imitating Country Western artists by doing voice-overs of the most popular songs! But now, GOING VIRAL ON TikTok will get you a Duo with some of the most popular legends in the music industry while you are at home! Now that will take your mind off the isolation to feelings of Exhilaration!
So, how does MINGO see it? In some brilliant way, this platform has afforded the ability for humanity to laugh at itself, AND MAN OH MAN….DO WE! Content that is shared by millions of people sharing their own personal experiences for everyone to see and enjoy through Reels! Everyone from Celebrities to Millionaires to Billionaires to Regular Average Wonderful People! Somehow…this platform TikTok has given us a feel of safety while we share some of our most intimate, personal, private episodes of our lives with the world! This is something that really has never happened on this kind of level before and there is no need to be part of a person’s “Friends Group” to witness this amazing, phenomenal explosion of LOVE! People are learning the culture and interests of their distant fellow humans who live on the other side of the globe! We are seeing children imitating their heroes which we would have never seen such private special moments in an intimate family setting. I love to watch children in other parts of the world and be amazed at how very similar they all really are! All children portraying their favorite Anime Show characters; little girls portraying male heroes and little boys having fun being girl gender heroes and/or villains all the while having fun and not getting teased or discouraged because it’s inappropriate to do so. I am seeing people of all backgrounds LIKE each other’s posts because they find amusement and interest in the videos not their gender, sexuality, or skin color! Yes, sometimes this happens…. but the success of TikTok is based on HAPPINESS and people just sharing fun, being silly, promoting their talents and loving one another!
NOW…let’s explore another angle! Did I mention, educating our minds with video content easy to find in one place? People in professional careers use TikTok through acting out skits and having fun sharing them with the world! Plus, all the while gaining free advertising for their businesses! WOW, just refreshing and brilliant advertising!! A DEFINITE BOOST FROM THE OLD BORING ADS WE HAVE SEEN OVER AND OVER FOR DECADES!
Did I mention how this platform has made PARENTS COOL!!!! Shout out to all the Parents! Before TikTok, parents were seen by their children as an Embarrassment, Aliens, even Strangers! Now, kids are TikTok’ing with their parents in videos and connecting like they never connected before! CHILDREN ARE HAVING FUN tolerating their Boring Parents…because WE ARE ALL COOL NOW! THANKS, TikTok!!
Cool Parents People!! WELL, WHO KNEW! ALL WE HAD TO DO IS MAKE A FOOL OF OURSELVES WHILE HAVING A BLAST DOING SO! Talk about Medicine for the Soul! Laughter is the Cure for All Evil and Boringness!
So… I SAY TO OUR COVID-19 ON LOCKDOWN SELVES! LET’S MIMIC THE GROUP, TWISTED SISTER…AND SING IT TOGETHER! “WE’VE NOT GONNA TAKE IT, OH NO, WE AIN’T GONNA TAKE IT, WE’RE NOT GONNA TAKE IT ANYMORE!!!!”
THE INFAMOUS, DAVID BOWIE said it best in his song… “LET’S DANCE, PUT ON OUR RED SHOES AND DANCE THE FLOOR.” MINGO Says…LET’S DO IT ON TIKTOK! Even though the woman in the song is feeling blue, David Bowie still encourages her to dance anyway. Therefore, LET’S DANCE ANYWAY AND SHARE LOVE WHILE DOING SO!! LET’S DANCE through all the tragedy; LET’S DANCE through everything that is causing us stress, pain and depression. We must find a way out.
Like PRINCE said in his song 1999! Say, say, 2000-00, party over Oops, out of time. So tonight, I’m gonna party like it’s 1999.” Oh wait…we did survive past that year of predicted disaster! Lol However, the point PRINCE was making war geared to the threat of war, destruction, and the end of humanity. This is the same threat Americans, and the world are facing today in the war with Russia and the Ukraine.
We are all facing these uncertain times throughout the world. Well, I guess we all should just take PRINCE’s advice because PARTYING IS GOOD FOR THE SOUL even if we are all in our Selfie-Cams, on Zoom or Cell Phones, Marco Polo, and the list goes on and on!!! SEE, THERE’S STILL HOPE PEOPLE, Mind over Matter Baby!
COVID can’t touch me now…well not in our fantasy world we all create on Tik-Tok!
So, let’s get out of our Mental Prisons and come out and play and enjoy life while Sharing More Love❤
Much L❤ve, MINGO