Old and older.
For many reasons, I look forward to becoming an old woman, especially if I can age thusly:
(Michelle Pfeiffer, who turned 50 in 2008)
I'd settle just for her hair, really. I've been encouraging mine into something less unruly lately, but caring for curly hair is tricky stuff.
Aging too, it seems. I'm on my way to another decade in a few months, and I've been thinking about it lately. A long, long time ago I decided that my thirties would be the most glorious years (each decade has it's own superlative, of course, because it seems like such a waste to talk about the best years of one's life as if they have already passed), and I've so looked forward to them. It keeps nagging at me, this worry that although the days have ticked by, I haven't really earned my glory years yet, and I desperately don't want to lose them.
"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." ~Anaïs Nin
And here I am, pulled taut in either direction, waiting.
(Michelle Pfeiffer, who turned 50 in 2008)
I'd settle just for her hair, really. I've been encouraging mine into something less unruly lately, but caring for curly hair is tricky stuff.
Aging too, it seems. I'm on my way to another decade in a few months, and I've been thinking about it lately. A long, long time ago I decided that my thirties would be the most glorious years (each decade has it's own superlative, of course, because it seems like such a waste to talk about the best years of one's life as if they have already passed), and I've so looked forward to them. It keeps nagging at me, this worry that although the days have ticked by, I haven't really earned my glory years yet, and I desperately don't want to lose them.
"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." ~Anaïs Nin
And here I am, pulled taut in either direction, waiting.