Wise Advice

My youngest and I were preparing to face our days and chatting in my small bathroom. As I brushed my hair of its bedhead knots I asked, "Kenzie do you think I should let my grey grow out or keep dying my hair?"
"Let it grow out. It's part of you. It's just like you say, puberty is part of who we are and how we change, your grey hair is part of you and how you've changed."
Now why hasn't anyone put that positive light on it before. Becoming an adult and growing up is a victory yet society tends to view growing old or continuing to grow up as something to hide, to deny.
"Wise words" I told her.
"I'm just being like you."

Pillow talk the other night with my youngest sort of went like this, "Mom, of you were tested to see what faction you belonged to, you'd be divergent." (This being birthed from the book Divergent."

"Oh?  Why is that?"

"Because you're smart, caring, and strong."

:-)

March 2015