This year, enjoy where you are and how you look!
-Candace Cavanaugh Buehner, BettyConfidential.com
Betty's New Year, New You Series is dedicated to
making 2009 your best year ever. Find more articles in the series
below.
When I was little, I read a story about a "magic mirror." The girl in the book discovered the mirror in her grandmother's attic, and when she looked in the mirror, she found she could actually CHANGE her appearance, at will. Yet what does the silly ninny wind up doing? She decides that she is "happy with herself as she is" and puts the mirror away.
I always hated that ending - I mean, who WOULDN'T want to try long blonde (completely natural-looking) hair and perhaps hips that aren't "made for birthing children," or any number of combinations not allowed by your own genetic constraints? But I find as I grow older, and the need for expensive face products becomes more apparent every day, the message of that story stays with me.
Don't get me wrong, if I had a way to banish the very
sobering reality I face each time I get in a Macy's dressing
room (three-way mirrors are standard), I would. My feeble
attempts at regular exercise are aimed toward that likely
unreachable goal. However, I have concluded that it's
much cheaper, and less dangerous, to try to take what God has given
you and make it work for you, than it is to wish yourself,
surgically or even emotionally, into a different physical
person.
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