Thursday, October 18, 2012

"I wanna make you smile, whenever you're sad. Carry you around when your arthritis is bad..."

This week a monumental event happened; I found my very first gray hair.  What made me think about this was Dr. Coyne's topic about how pregnant people are portrayed in the media and how stretch marks should be worn proudly.  When I saw that gray hair, I'm not gonna lie, I was excited!  That hair seemed to me to be more of a symbol of life, particularly of all the things going on in my life right now.  This is my last semester at BYU, my husband and I are having a little boy in Feb., we're moving to Pennsylvania after April, we bought our first car car, just lots of things.  And so when I found that hair I just thought about all those things and couldn't help but smile.  I think another reason I welcomed getting the gray hair was the fact that I've had time to consider what my reaction would be to becoming gray.  My mom claimed she was gray by the time she was 20, so even as a teenager I was bracing myself for being gray young and I decided that I would just embrace it.  I think that is important to think about your actual views on beauty and to figure out what is important to you before you let the media try and tell you what beauty is.  I think it is a lot easier to withstand their attacks when you know what actually matters to you.  So even though it is just one gray hair for now, I am going to wear it proudly.
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  1. MeggersOctober 20, 2012 at 10:38 AM

    I am so proud of you. I have the same genetics as you, in the respect that my mother got her first gray hair when she was 16 and I got mine when I was 19. I freaked out and was so sad! But I commend you for not giving in to the media's ideal of beautiful and young, and hope I can be as awesome as you!

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  2. Sarah CoyneOctober 24, 2012 at 7:54 PM

    GREAT attitude! Half of my friends have grey hair already (especially if they have darker hair naturally). Way to embrace the inevitable! :)

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  3. roxannebaroldyOctober 24, 2012 at 9:09 PM

    I LOVE that song! I love that although you didn't directly talk about it in your blog post, it fit in so perfectly. I think I got my first gray hair when I was 15 or 16, but unlike you I pulled it out! Now I'd be totally fine if I started getting gray hair. I think in a lot of ways it shows what we've lived through, and is dignified and refined. :)

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