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Accepting My Gray Hair
By Omitunde Slack of African American Family Connection
When I look in the mirror the person I see staring back at me is not who I am on the inside. Gray Hair! Mixed gray hair. My face is framed with it and it feels like I don't know that person I see. My family tells me that I look regal and beautiful because it looks like a crown. My friends say "you really look good" with you hair gray. I don't believe them, not at all. It is not attractive and I do not look good with gray hair. It is not a aging thing because I am healthy. I walk and exercise daily, I write, I am an active person. I don't feel old. I can still dance. I listen to all kinds of music, Jazz, Pop, Classical, Hip Hop, Rap, New Age, Neo Soul etc. I attend concerts and usually get in the front and sing while dancing and jumping up and down like a teenager if its someone I really enjoy. I run around with my grand children more than their parents do. I have a great sense of humor and I crack myself up every day. Sometimes I feel that I am fighting to stay young when I color my hair. I like a little gray, just not my whole head. So far I have stared at this box of Bigen #46 Light Chestnut everyday as it sits here on my desk. Sometimes it feels like I am not who I think I am. I am actually considering just accepting it and allowing my "inner beauty" to take over. I know that this is silly and I should just accept it. We all age and sometimes it is not pretty. I am grateful for my good health and work at keeping my heart free of hate and I laugh a lot at myself. My siblings that only one or two years older than me have serious health challenges and they cannot live alone. I have posted my picture on my profiles as an act of exposing myself to people on the internet in public to people I don't know. I have used the same pic on my other profiles to some that recognize me. No one has made any comments to me about my looks. It is all my stuff, having a problem with my appearance. In my head, I am hearing people saying "she really looks old". No one has said this to me. Life offers me the opportunity daily to discover something new and exciting. My "paridigm" is healthy. I love my life and I have opportunity to do many things that others cannot do because of their attitude about life. The media tells us to be thin and look young. Youth is for the young, feeling connected to life and all it's mysteries is more interesting. Well, my pic is here. Let's see what happens. I love and approve of myself totally and unconditionally~! This is my mantra.... |
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May, 2012
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