From the Pirate Queen of freshstartwrite

[azurelunatic]

Fwd: The Ages of Women

In honor of women's history month and in memory of Erma Bombeck

The ages of women:

Age 3: She looks at herself and sees a Queen.

Age 8: She looks at herself and sees Cinderella.

Age 15: She looks at herself and sees an Ugly Sister (Mum I can't go to school looking like this!)

Age 20: She looks at herself and sees "too fat/too thin, too short/too tall, too straight/too curly"- but decides she's going out anyway.

Age 30: She looks at herself and sees "too fat/too thin, too short/too tall, too straight/too curly" - but decides she doesn't have time to fix it, so she's going out anyway.

Age 40: She looks at herself and sees "clean" and goes out anyway.

Age 50: She looks at herself and sees "I am" and goes wherever she wants to go.

Age 60: She looks at herself and reminds herself of all the people who can't even see themselves in the mirror anymore. Goes out and conquers the world.

Age 70: She looks at herself & sees wisdom, laughter and ability, goes out and enjoys life.

Age 80: Doesn't bother to look. Just puts on a purple hat and goes out to have fun with the world.

Comments

[tigergladys.livejournal.com]

I can't wait until I am old.

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[azurelunatic]

I already have the purple hat.

[mamadeb.livejournal.com]

I'm not waiting until I'm 80.

I'm going to find a purple hat *now*. :)

And, yeah. I do say "clean".

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[azurelunatic]

I got my purple hat when I was twelve or so. I was known for it in high school.

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[iroshi.livejournal.com]

I had a purple hat for a while in high school. I did tell people, if they asked, that I didn't need to wait until I was old to wear purple, because I already didn't care what they thought about it. :)

In general, though, I don't wear hats much. Don't like things on my head. Finally come to terms with that, now that I know *why*.

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[azurelunatic]

I've never had anyone tell me that I'm not old enough to wear any color.

Must be a lower 48 thing.