Glow by Lady E

  Dear Glow Girls, Somewhere along the way, my idea of beautiful changed.  DCC Armani said: “It’s hard trying to figure out your version of what a beauty standard is when you look around and your best friends, they have hair and you don’t.“ That got me thinking.  What really is beauty? What is beautiful? They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder.  But there are a lot of things that a big group of people agree on that are beautiful. So, is that what beautiful is? What the majority agrees on?  But there are also things, standards of beauty from different places in the world that are different from what most people deem beautiful.  Does that mean their idea of beauty is wrong? This issue has made me do a deep dive into my own standards of beauty.  Charlotte Mason believed that c hildren should be surrounded by what is whole, beautiful, and worthy. She said we shouldn’t keep chipped mugs or plates, torn books, broken toys at home. Basically anything br...

  I didn’t always believe this. Not in a loud, obvious way. But in small decisions. Quiet ones. The kind no one else sees. There was always a pause. I remember exactly what that pause felt like. I held something in my hands—something I had wanted for a long time. I had waited for it. Looked at it more than once. Thought about it more than I would admit. And when it was finally in front of me— I hesitated. Not because I couldn’t have it. But because something in me said— not yet. As if there was some invisible point I had to reach first. Some version of myself that was more ready. More deserving. So I put it back. And in that moment, I didn’t question it. It felt normal. That quiet withholding. That instinct to delay something I already knew I wanted. I did that in other ways too. Choosing later. Choosing less. Telling myself, this is enough. More often than not, it wasn’t. There was always that ‘what if.’ It was just what I had learned...