My Wish For Women

Okay, I'm being redundant here...beating a dead horse, so to speak, with my topic today but it bears repeating and reconsideration, I think.

When did celebrities and the media dictate how we look, how we feel about ourselves, how we live?  Maybe back to the days when Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor graced the covers of magazines...maybe back even further?

I don't know but it has to stop!  And I'm ready to lead the charge!  With that in mind, I humbly have these wishes for the women reading this.

I wish teenagers realized that they may not have clear skin all the time.  It'll come someday, perhaps, but it's one of those things you go through to get to the good stuff of life.  And your body's not going to look like Rihanna or Jennifer Lawrence's either...  unless your parents are Rihanna's or Jennifer's.   Most of that's all genetic.

I wish young Moms realized that their bodies are not going to snap back into shape  like Jennifer Lopez's.  It'll take time, if it happens at all.  And if it doesn't, who's going to love you any less?  And your kids aren't always going to look like her picture-ready kids either.  That's not reality.

I wish middle-aged women realized that cellulite and expanding waistlines are a fact of middle age life...unless you have a personal trainer and a nutritionist, like Halle Berry.  Same with wrinkles -unless you take the Botox route and look like you've stood in front of a jet engine all day long.  Your wrinkles are a testament to all the smiles and laughs you've enjoyed.  Treasure them!

And older women -of which I'm one.  I wish for you good health and peace...no easy task some days, I know.   During a time when bra sizes should maybe read "38 Long" instead of "38 with a B Cup" and your knees ache at the thought of walking a mile, we have to rejoice in our track record and smile that we've all made it this far.

I'm not suggesting that we all throw in the towel and slob it up the rest of our lives.  Nope, we still need to maintain -with exercise, moisturizing,  putting on some blush and lipstick, a smile on our faces and carry on, like we do.  

God made all of us in all shapes and sizes and gave us all different life experiences.  To strive to look like an unrealistic face or body on a magazine cover isn't fair to us, no matter the age.  Maybe the Hollywood types would do well to emulate US for a change.  They'd see women, happy with their lives, with their strength and with their beauty.  That's my wish anyway.  Have a terrific day!