I read this poem for the first time ever, today (although apparently it went viral about a year ago). It is just too good not to add to the annals here at Adulting – Second Half:
“I heard someone say . . . I think midlife is just becoming who you were at seventeen again, but loving her this time.” – Erin Gorrie
To all of my “beautiful, funny, thoughtful, kind and caring, strange and lovely” middle-aged lady friends here at the blog, I am asking you to join my mission: Let’s help all of the younger ladies love themselves NOW. How do we do that? We show them how we unconditionally accept and love ourselves and them and each other, “for the way that we are, not the way that we look.”
Are you passing on love or are you passing on pain? Heal your pain and pass on love.