Call me crazy, but finding a single strand of white hair on my head today was really cool. I remember finding what I was pretty sure was the same thing (in relatively the same spot) last year, just before the wedding. I plucked it then to compare it to a white sheet of paper, and it was indeed white from what I could tell. I plucked this one to get a better look as well, and it's definitely white. (now I'm wishing I hadn't, and that it was back in my head) I'm thinking this one came from the same spot as last time, and will continue to come in white from now on. How strange, though, to only have one...
This makes me wonder, too, how my hair will age. If it will come in spurts of white, and eventually be all white..? I'm not one of these women who have bought into the idea that white and gray needs to be covered. In fact, I look forward to getting it. I think it's a sort of right of passage, a sort of walking into the next phase of your life. It symbolizes years of wisdom and grace, stories to be told and a history to share. Why are we so ashamed of that, as women? Seems silly to me.
I Am...
- Beth
- My family is a Colorado transplant hailing from Minneapolis, MN. Upon conclusion that my husband's job is "kickass", we decided to set up life here, with our two children and two kitties (and, most likely to come, a dog and some chickens).
2 comments:
I feel *exactly* the same way. I found my first (((silver))) hair last summer. It came straight out like an wispy fly away and had a little curl to the end of it. Now it is long and blends into the rest of my hair. I wear it like a badge of age and would never think to cover it up too! It's cool to know someone else feels the same way about "growing old gracefully" ;o)
Exactly! Growing old gracefully...I remember hearing on the Oil of Olay commercials when I was young and their slogan was something like "Why Grow Old Gracefully?". What else is there? NOT growing old, I guess, was their point. So stupid. Nobody ever came up with a slogan like that for men. They wear their gray and their wrinkles with pride - as they (and we) should. I actually find it quite sexy on a man. And, so it can be sexy on us, right?
I was really amazed the first time I found the white hair last Summer (wow, same time for both of us). I analyzed it so scrupulously, and deduced that because of the difference in coarseness and the fact that it was the same color to the root, it was certainly not blond but, in fact, white. That, and the fact that when it was on a white sheet of paper, it disappeared.
Hooray to us, for embracing this!!
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