Vintage on line

One of the many advantages of growing older is that, if you are lucky, you begin to develop a comfort with who you are. We women tend to be very hard on ourselves. We focus on our faults instead of seeing the beauty that we possess.

There are a few things about myself that I used to be very self conscious about, my big hips, my freckles and the fact that my eyes are 2 different colors. As the years have passed, I have come to terms with these characteristics that I used to consider flaws.

Now instead of using fade cream, I adore my freckles. I've always loved them on other people.

I even love my curvy hips. No matter how much weight I've ever lost, those hips have always stuck with me. Those hips allowed me to carry my 2 gorgeous babies with ease and to cart them around with me for their first few years. They make me feel like a woman.

I'm not gonna lie about the eyes. That was a harder thing to come to terms with. But now I realize that it is just part of what makes me uniquely me. And that is something to be celebrated.

Take whatever it is about you, that thing that you can't do anything about and embrace it. Be who you are. It just might change the way you feel about yourself.



Photo: I wish I could give credit for this wonderful picture. If any of you know the source, pleas share with me.