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That Time I Took My Grandma To Paris ✈️🇫🇷….

i feel as Black and brown kids we grow up with this pressure to “get our parents out the hood,” “move our moms out the projects,” “make our family its first million” all while wanting to generate enough for every generation that comes after ours to never have to worry the way we did. to never have to put down one item in the grocery store just to afford another.

while i think it’s beautiful that so many of us strive for that i also think it’s harmful. that pressure has always made me feel like mannn i didn’t hit a mil yet so i guess what i’m doing is meaningless for my family.

but, doesn’t THIS moment count for something? i mean my grandma got an insanely discounted ticket in one of the best seats on the plane to a city she’s been dreaming of visiting for FOREVER. no i can’t write a line about paying her rent with my appearance fee like the rappers do, but this meant so much to her and to me, too.

and that deserves space, spotlight, glory.

this pressure has made moments like this feel not worthy of being placed as high as they deserve. not worthy of our time, attention and gratitude because it’s “just business class to Paris.” but, i’m starting to realize at 26 that you can have everything and nothing at the same time. it’s the private jet with no soul. you can also have very little but also have unmatched abundance. it’s perspective right?

it comes from giving these moments, this progress its due. recognizing what you have and what you can give in this moment even if there is more you want to eventually have or provide. because that’s where the goodness is. that’s where the blessings are. here. right here❤️.

it’s from that place that more can come, not from focusing on the “I wish we got business class going back too!” or “mannn we didn’t get to that Chinese restaurant we wanted to hit up. Bummer.”

That’s all okay because look at all that was and is. And God that’s enough love to last a lifetime.

#Paris #Travel #flightattendantlife #grandmasarethebest #Blackboyjoy taken in Paris by @malickmercier

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not one silly complaint hush and enjoy the wonders little malick 🥹❤️ #flightattendantlife #sanfrancisco #sf #bayarea #fillmore #gratefulheart #perfectday taken in San Francisco, California by @malickmercier

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it’s MALICK😊, as seen on @todayshow with @jennaandfriends alongside #GrandmaInParis of course! 😂💓🙏🏾

writing to you fresh off the couch in studio 1A to quickly say if your inner wisdom is speaking to you, trust it, believe it.

i have been championing humanity for what feels like all twenty-six years of my life. i’d be thinking of the human side of the equation when no one else cared…. writing in journals, mulling over the meaning of everything while making tour stops across our country and world. these moments would live in between slinging Pepsis, biscoff cookies, and whispers of gratitude for flying @jetblue ✈️.

and i have felt alone in how much i cared about us - our humanity ❤️ - at times but, today i just felt held.

for me to say, “travel is your birthright,” and have @jennabhager respond live on air “God, that’s so true.” 😮‍💨

my prayer isn’t that someone in one of the homes i look out on when i fly heard that. no, my prayer is that they felt that.

it’s as though TODAY was always going to come it was just waiting on me to believe. was i willing to believe when i wasn’t a TV segment in between @jimmyfallon and @nph? was i willing to understand that i was worthy of such a big stage to begin with?

and recently i figured it out: i am because i am. i think that’s how people get to these moments in their lives - they know their birthrights. and they believe they’re worthy of them simply because they exist.

to help your big dreams come true, i’ll be writing an ongoing love letter to you focused on your birthrights. it’s BIRTHRIGHTS WITH MALICK on Substack✨. first post just went live! see you there through the link in my bio🙏🏾

#dreamscometrue #todayshow #thetodayshow #worthiness #birthright taken in The Today Show by @malickmercier

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a year ago

a dream morning in yellowstone 😭🌲🦬

#montana #travel #yellowstonenationalpark #bucketlisttrip #solotravels taken in Yellowstone National Park by @malickmercier

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14 days ago

apples of gold in settings of silver 🍂

#boston #newenglandfall #maplelatte #bostoncommons #travel taken in Boston, Massachusetts by @malickmercier

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15 days ago

i call this packin’ bear spray 🐻

& admiring God’s beauty 😩

& picking pieces of it to keep with 🌻

& finding it in us in the least expecting of places ❤️

& reading of someone who gave their deepest self a fighting chance 🧘🏾

& sipping big shooters 🔫

& being reminded of the light inside 💫

& having this meal far away that is still somehow definitely homemade 🐈

& thrifting jus to hold onto this place 🏔️

& wondering what it would be like to be from this place 🎧

& succumbing to dusk in hyalite 🎶

& listening to the owls bicker but dw, I’m packin’ bear spray 😉 taken in Montana by @malickmercier

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londonnnnn 😎

cloud surfing defff my favorite 🏄🏾‍♂️

sent this to my grandma 🥹 we went to Jolene together when we visited

been living to go to a goooood bookstore thank u @taylortippett for sharing this one 📚

something about an alley 😮‍💨

this London taxi, 8pm, and thursdays are all the same and you know it

idk this was mid :/

hyde parkkkkk run after landing is required 🏃🏾‍♂️

8 milessss light work 😝

Uber driver said he scared y’all don’t be looking wrong or right 😭

didn’t know London was into art like that 🤨

METROOOOOO🚇

ur flight attendant 12 hours before takeoff like he ain’t gotta welcome you to mint in the morning

aye aye 🇬🇧

mmmmm the stars at night above the Atlantic make me feel so cosyyyy

current read copped in londonnnn 📖

#london #cabincrewlife #londonuk #travel #foyles taken in London, United Kingdom by @malickmercier

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MALICK’S FIRST HORSE RIDE 🤠

the customers from Montana always stick with me 🥹 even years later - the sweetest people

I’m in you Montana 🪩

second I saw Ham swaying his head like crazy I just knew he was gonna be funnnn🐎

this is so insane to me - i had no idea horses get territorial about their place in line. apparently Ham has been with some experienced riders lately who let him go a little wild because they know they can handle him. Ham, I need you to know I am not one of those riders….it’s quite literally my first day

the natural beauty of Montana is jus chef’s kiss 👨🏾‍🍳💋

everyone else seems to be doing good. one girl whispered to me “this is amazing, and equally terrifying” 😭 yuppp

Ham, you can’t pose??! after all we’ve GALLOPED through 😩

it’s also important because she said if you let the horse do whatever they will take advantage of you. they have so much personality and are so like us its crazyyy. she shared horses made her so much more confident. i think that’s beautiful.

she’s our guide’s horse. apparently has even more of a temper than Ham!

😭😭😭😭we shall never speak about this again

🥹the best day. now my thighs are sore, but at least they’ve been spent in a worthy cause.

#montana #lifechanging #horsebackridinglessons #horsesoninstagram #yellowstonenationalpark taken in Yellowstone National Park by @malickmercier

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19 days ago

there’s been something about this summer.

something about how i had it all and yet seemingly nothing at all.

something about how i felt more loved than i’ve ever felt but, that didn’t mean the absence of loss.

something about calling my losses wins because i chose myself and shared the truth over saving face.

something about learning that it’s better to be honest…even if you can’t fix what the truth may do.

something about that flight i lead where i was so calm. and while my calm couldn’t stop our unexpected diversion, it surely helped me get through it. and maybe someone else, too.

something about every life diversion leading me to someone, some place, or something that feels like the wawa out the hotel window - home.

something about that green pasture in Texas. that line, God makes me lie down in green pastures. aha! like this one? here, it makes sense that i shall not want.

something about my Euro summer….something about missing America. something about when i’m here I wonder if i should be there, and when i’m there, i miss here.

something about learning a low ego is the secret sauce. time spent here is no less than time spent there. connecting people here is no less than connecting people there.

something about having all the options, but having the strength to say no to the ones that won’t yield the life i dream of.

something about deciding to do less and starting to see how that yields more.

something about the both/and of it all. about realizing there is so much beauty in the single truth that two things can be true. and that the multitudes we hold are to be celebrated. taken in Austin, Texas by @malickmercier

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back working Paris again and thinking of you.

i haven’t been posting because honestly crossing the Atlantic as cabin crew has been significantly harder than i thought it would be.

i traversed the Atlantic 10x in May - each time not sleeping, but serving. giving all of me. to the point that i had nothing left 😭. i had a really really really rough flight and just had to stop everything.

and i couldn’t stop flying - it’s my job - so i did 8 crossings in June.

everything else in my life took a hit.

i don’t like lying. especially to you. the trust i have built here you can’t fake. it’s tough when i struggle because i already go against the grain. the industry (and world!) most appreciates flight attendants who are cute little fairies who never utter anything real. and i feel that’s all I do is tell you what’s really on my heart.

i didn’t want to say it but, my first month doing transatlantic sort of broke me. i mean i didn’t want to see another Europe destination on my line for…ever?

but, i’m back and, turns out, i’m grateful because, well, this time, in Paris, i had a good time.

and this layover made me WANT to be back in the international game. you have it to give it time? aha.

this is the story of paying crazy Boston rent despite not being there. the story of a visa denied and a Paris living dream deferred. the story of turning 27 and feeling pulled in every which way but, one. the story of shhhhh, I’m trying to hear myself. the story of working out twice every transatlantic layover — discipline I didn’t know I had in me. the story of feeling a hug when i get to work trips throughout my own country spending days in the cities and galleys that used to be mine. maybe they still are... the story of having no one to blame but myself for where i am at, and that being both the up and the down. the story of working 150 hours each month (the max!) in hopes of getting to a better place. the story of having hindsight empathy for those i used to judge because whew i get it now. the story of learning what i give myself first, i can then give others. the story of trusting God and knowing that’s all it ever is.

#cabincrew #lifejourney♥️ #travel #nomadic #27 taken in Paris, France by @malickmercier

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3 months ago

i wonder if I would have ever phrased it this way if I never started learning French 🧐….. d’accord

#learninglanguages #selfexpression #solotravel #cabincrewlifestyle #learningfrench taken in Madrid, Spain by @malickmercier

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4 months ago

yeahhhh so i do not work on my birthday, but this year scheduling said i had to. and i tried to make it special, but everything fell apart. BUT☝🏾i turned 27 in MADRID!!! 🇪🇸😝

#awinisawin #flightattendantlifestyle #cabincrewlife✈️ #solotravel #madrid taken in Madrid, Spain by @malickmercier

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