In a fast-paced, hectic life filled with accomplishment and meaning, the first African American former lady of the United States, Michelle Obama has appeared as one of the most compelling and iconic women of our era. Her insightful, intimate, inspiring memoir, reveals her as an influential and powerful woman since she served as a role model for many people in the world with her words, actions, and legacy.
The first African American lady of the United States to serve in that role. Michelle created the most inclusive and welcoming in the White House’s history, while also being a powerful advocate for education for children around the world, girls and women in the United States, raised awareness of the importance to pursue healthier lives for families, spoke up about gender equality and provided a glimpse of her husband Barak Obama with his leadership qualities as a powerful leader with his highest repute across America.
Along the way, she aced Carpool Karaoke, showed us a few dance moves, and lived life under the glare of publicity. From sitting down with Oprah and doing push-ups with Ellen DeGeneres, she’s a woman full of positivity, warmth, and strength in an era it shaped her as a role model for our generation.
Michelle herself, humbly mentioned that she is just an ordinary woman who has lived an extraordinary life. Michelle Obama said in Becoming, “In sharing my story, I hope to help create space for other stories and other voices, to widen the pathway for who belongs and why.” Just by the opening of Michelle’s memoir, I feel her, I hear her, and I visualize myself just doing some push-ups in the gym, just an ordinary task by ordinary standards. Her memoir reveals who Michelle Obama is, welcoming and conversational.
Through her admirable qualities, courageous action, mesmerizing storytelling, and work deep of reflection, Michelle Obama encourages readers into her fascinating life, recounting the experiences that have shaped her with, insight, motherhood, and to her time spent at Chicago’s South Side to the White House. With lively wit and unerring honesty, Michelle explains her disappointments and her triumphs, both private and public, on her own terms and in her own words - telling her entire story as she has lived it. Warm, Wise, and meaningful, Becoming is an unavoidable memoir by a notable figure, attributed to the deeply personal core of a woman’s soul which contains securely defied expectations that inspires us to look up to.
“There’s power in allowing yourself to become known and heard, in owning your unique story, in using your authentic voice. And there’s grace in being willing to know and hear others,” mentioned Michelle Obama concluding her remarkable memoir. It reveals perspective is how we become. We mustn’t give up. We mustn’t be cynical. We must live life with purpose, and maximize our human potential with optimism because, in the end, we should always believe things that are possible, then we become. If this isn’t an outstanding summary that encapsulates what we should all strive to be, then I’m not sure what is.