ME!
Holding my "before" favorite shirt after losing 125 pounds on my journey to better health.
Thursday, December 19, 2013
Smile lines?
My work had a professional photo taken of me for an "after weight loss." It was funny because several of us received just head shots so it really doesn't show much. I did notice that I have a lot of wrinkles. I knew that I was going to have some after my journey but not that many!!!! I had to remind myself of one of my favorite quotes by Mark Twain....."Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been." I hope that is what my wrinkles show. Smiles, many, many smiles! I sent the picture to my children and one of my son's who knew I struggled with the wrinkled look decided to photo shop it a little. I did not realize it was so easy to erase years or living, learning, crying, and smiling with just a tap of a key. I didn't even notice he had done that. I just wondered why he had sent it back. I have thought about it a lot and decided that I have earned these wrinkles. Every single tiny line is a unique part of me. I was told by a friend that she considered her wrinkles as battle scars from the battle for her life. Yes, they are battle scars from a fight I have been on for a few years now. A battle I will continue to fight for the rest of my life to be as healthy as I can possibly be. I guess I will just have to love and embrace these wrinkles because they are not going away and I wouldn't change that.
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That is a lovely picture. No our lines are us and we need to keep them all :-)
ReplyDeleteLooks like a pretty face to me. Did you ever read Nora Ephron's book "I Feel Bad About My Neck" . Funny. She said that after all her little nips and tucks she looked precisely one year younger!
ReplyDeleteLovely photo .... did you ever watch Shirley Valentine the movie and the part of the boat where she talks about her stretch marks? If you get the chance watch it. In is Shirley is on a boat with a guy who is a womanising Sailor .... and he kisses her stretch marks and she says "he kissed me stretch marks" and then he says “they show that you are alive, that you have given life; don’t be ashamed of these marks. They are beautiful.”
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