Hello beauties!!! I was very intrigued by a comment that was made to me yesterday concerning aging, and being over 40. I was in my wonderful hair salon getting my 6 week trim and 4 week root cover-up, which by the way....going to the salon has now taken on a life of its own. I used to go to the salon very excited and looking forward to being pampered and getting that new look that will change my life forever, only to realize later that week that it really did nothing but change my "look", not my life! I NOW go to the salon out of necessity.....for the love of Pete, those course unruly monstrosities called gray hairs are overtaking my dark flowing locks!!! So as I was sitting in the chair discussing these beauties with my stylist, I made the comment that most of those gray hairs had stress and my husbands name written on every one of them, and a very Godly wonderful women seated in the next station said, "Honey, don't claim that stress.....I call my gray hairs..WISDOM"! And it clicked, how correct she was!!
Now don't get me wrong, I DEPLORE getting older, every day...I get older, every day...I get a new wrinkle or my existing wrinkles get deeper and every day that pesty age spot right smack dab in the middle of my cheek just stares at me thru my mirror....and I truly think it's laughing hysterically. Every day, my belly looses its firmness...oh wait who am I kidding, every day my belly adds to it's fluffiness! Every day, my boobs are heading a little bit more south and every day I remember that I am getting older as each day passes. That is a sobering thought really, BUT EVERY DAY I GET A LITTLE WISER!!!!! Can you imagine what choices we would have made in our 20's if we knew what we know in our 40"s??? Yes getting older really stinks, on the outside, but getting older and the wisdom that comes with that is absolutely AMAZING to me!! It's like a new found friend! With age comes, a little stubbornness, a little more confidence, a lot more patience, and a new way that you look at life and those who are in it.
After 40 I made the decision that my children were getting older and were not as needing of my time as before and I started really having these deep thoughts......which can be quite scary at times! I felt like my life is in stages, I'm young and in school, find the Lord, graduate, find my true love, get hitched, start a business, have babies, watch them grow into young teenagers and now........WHAT? I was at a cross roads where I knew that the only thing out there for me was not to be a mom, a wife, a maid, a taxi driver and so on, which fulfilled me for a season, but now my season's were changing and I could feel it. My wonderful friends, and you know what I mean when I say "Friends", those hilarious, caring and truth telling friends who pat you on the back one minute, and then turn around and smack you upside the head the next! They, and God were helping me figure out where to take this new path......and I found it........... here in blogging and Make-Up Artistry! I adore blogging, I am much better at writing than I am at conversation, I am a bit backwards and awkward, and writing assists me in being free and telling my thoughts......and of course in conversation there are no backspace and delete buttons!!! He, He!
So I am now a freelance make-up artist, and loving every single solitary minute of it, I even put my big girl panties on and flew to California, BY MYSELF, for 9 days and attended a great makeup artistry school!!! Woo-Hoo! God of course has been my hope, my strength and my staying power, without Him I am nothing and I thank Him EVERYDAY for his undeserved grace and mercy and for loving me, the whole me. So ladies, do not let age define you, let it EMPOWER you to follow a dream!!!!
Now don't get me wrong, I DEPLORE getting older, every day...I get older, every day...I get a new wrinkle or my existing wrinkles get deeper and every day that pesty age spot right smack dab in the middle of my cheek just stares at me thru my mirror....and I truly think it's laughing hysterically. Every day, my belly looses its firmness...oh wait who am I kidding, every day my belly adds to it's fluffiness! Every day, my boobs are heading a little bit more south and every day I remember that I am getting older as each day passes. That is a sobering thought really, BUT EVERY DAY I GET A LITTLE WISER!!!!! Can you imagine what choices we would have made in our 20's if we knew what we know in our 40"s??? Yes getting older really stinks, on the outside, but getting older and the wisdom that comes with that is absolutely AMAZING to me!! It's like a new found friend! With age comes, a little stubbornness, a little more confidence, a lot more patience, and a new way that you look at life and those who are in it.
After 40 I made the decision that my children were getting older and were not as needing of my time as before and I started really having these deep thoughts......which can be quite scary at times! I felt like my life is in stages, I'm young and in school, find the Lord, graduate, find my true love, get hitched, start a business, have babies, watch them grow into young teenagers and now........WHAT? I was at a cross roads where I knew that the only thing out there for me was not to be a mom, a wife, a maid, a taxi driver and so on, which fulfilled me for a season, but now my season's were changing and I could feel it. My wonderful friends, and you know what I mean when I say "Friends", those hilarious, caring and truth telling friends who pat you on the back one minute, and then turn around and smack you upside the head the next! They, and God were helping me figure out where to take this new path......and I found it........... here in blogging and Make-Up Artistry! I adore blogging, I am much better at writing than I am at conversation, I am a bit backwards and awkward, and writing assists me in being free and telling my thoughts......and of course in conversation there are no backspace and delete buttons!!! He, He!
So I am now a freelance make-up artist, and loving every single solitary minute of it, I even put my big girl panties on and flew to California, BY MYSELF, for 9 days and attended a great makeup artistry school!!! Woo-Hoo! God of course has been my hope, my strength and my staying power, without Him I am nothing and I thank Him EVERYDAY for his undeserved grace and mercy and for loving me, the whole me. So ladies, do not let age define you, let it EMPOWER you to follow a dream!!!!
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I so love this article by Rainee Rae on the Wisdom of Gray. I believe she hit this on the head and it rings so true with me. Abs... -
What a great perspective!