No Make-Up!

​I recently celebrated my 43rd birthday—and to be honest, it has taken me this long to finally leave the house without make-up.  This may not appear to be an amazing feat, but if you know me, it is HUGE!  Although there are aspects of aging that take time to accept—like going to bed before my teenager and accidentally putting on my eyeglasses when I am wearing contacts, I appreciate the ability to embrace truths that took me decades to fully understand and appreciate.  Though I know that no one cares if I wear make-up or not, I was never comfortable leaving the house without it.  Then, I reached the ripe old age of 43 and bam, it happened—I just don’t care! Elizabeth Gilbert shared the wisdom of a woman she met, “’We all spend our twenties and thirties trying so hard to be perfect, because we’re so worried about what people will think of us.  Then we get into our forties and fifties, and we finally start to be free, because we decide that we don’t give a damn what anyone thinks of us.  But you won’t be completely free until you reach your sixties and seventies, when you finally realize this liberating truth--nobody was ever thinking about you, anyhow.’”  So, my friends, whether it is something simple like make-up or something more significant like the impression you make to your colleagues, embrace the truth that people’s opinions are simply vapor; it lasts for but a moment, the good and the bad.  Let us find freedom and humor in knowing “nobody is thinking about us anyway!”

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