So often I hear adults talking about some aspect of a child’s behavior as a “phase” that they will grow out of. Most of the time that child is simply expressing their authentic self.
I see the same thing with being girly. Being girly isn’t a phase to be grown out of. It is a part of who you are. Sometimes expectations can cause you to suppress girliness for a while. But suppressing a part of who you are is not growing out of something. It won’t promote inner joy either.
Find a way to connect with your inner girl as often as you can. Grow into who you are. Hugs
This post was created by the talented Candie Hart and originally appeared on her Tumblr blog. It is reproduced here with her kind permission. Be sure to check out more about Candie at the end of the post and give her some Pink Femme love.
There was a time when I thought that I might just grow out of my girliness. It’s not as though I ever thought it was “a phase”. I thought I’d eventually get old enough that I would lose interest. It hasn’t happened and I don’t guess it will.
Ever since I was little, I was drawn to femininity. I remember being 3 or 4 and making my own cute girly sandals out of shoe insoles and cardboard, complete with pretty little flowers on them. I remember playing dress-up by putting my legs through one leg hole of a pair of shorts so I could have a skirt. I didn’t have a sister and my mom was a larger woman. So, I improvised a lot! I should have known that going to college wouldn’t change things. Neither would getting married. Neither would having kids.
I’m forty-five now and I’m pretty sure this isn’t going away. And why should it? It’s not just a part of who i am, like an appendix that can be taken out without much issue. No, this is who I am. I can say it’s a part of me, but more precisely, this is who I am. Age won’t change that. It may change some dynamics of it. It already has. But getting older isn’t going to change who is at the core of who I have always been. So, I choose to not only grow old gracefully but also grow old girlifully.
Here’s to many more years of girliness!
CandieHart
Candie is an enthusiast for all things fit and femme. All of her very creative captions carry the same positive, motivating ethos that I envisioned for Pink Femme when I started this site. Use this link to go to Candie’s blog on Tumblr and give her captions some much-needed love.
If you would like to see more of Candie’s longer-form content with captions here on Pink Femme – here is the link to the list of posts that have been published.
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