So last night my roommate and I were watching a show on TLC. This woman was getting ready to go to a wedding with her husband and she told him that she wanted him to wait. She went to try on the three dresses she was deciding between and wanted his opinion. She tried on two dresses, then said, now which one? He said....mmmm, I like them both. She then went to try on another dress asking again...which one. He repeated that he liked them all. She made him pick a favorite then replied I'm just going to take them all.
Cracking up with laughter, my roommate and I could only have the grace to be ashamed for the female race. This scene was way too familiar. We are complicated.
We have no idea what we want. BUT....
we want you to tell us what you want, then completely disregard that.
This is one example of thousands.
I'm immensely grateful to be a girl. God definitely knew what He was doing.
I would probably be celibate if I were a guy.
girls.
are complicated.

getting older is a funny thing, you desperately want it, seeing the "freedom" which it holds, anger at your youthful restrictions, and feeling your immaturity. when it finally begins to arrive, it arrives with a vengeance and you realize that the wishing was futile, wasteful. now is precious. wherever in life you are. now is beauty. getting older is rather irreversible. it can't be changed, slowed or stopped.
one thing that really struck me is the obsession of youth with beauty.
the physical is of such importance when one is young. spending untold amounts of money, hours upon hours striving for the hollow satisfaction of the world's standard of beauty. now i look around at those beyond their teens, twenties, thirties and I see wrinkles, gray strands, bent backs. Beautiful in their own right, but according to society, no beauty is to be found. that which we strive for is so fleeting. yet as a teen physical appearance was of the utmost value, determining even your social status. sad.
this video shows the mirage we spent our lives pursuing.