I’m getting wrinkles. I suppose it’s an inevitable part of life and growing older. Though it’s not ideal, it is reality and everyone gets wrinkles. You can live with them, lotion them, try to remove them or ignore them… that’s really personal preference and beside the point.
My point for today is that regardless of what I do with these newfound little friends, I first want to make sure that if they must show themselves, then they must do so as happy wrinkles… wrinkles from spending too many days smiling at my babies in the sun, from laughing until bent over with friends, from winking at my little girl as she tries something new, creases from twisting my face in funny contortions, in attempts to talk like the characters in my son’s storybooks, fine lines from forgetting sunglasses on years of beach walks with my husband.
Forget frown lines. I want my face, as an aged woman to look like it’s more comfortable laughing than relaxed. And I want my wrinkles to be a faded map proving that to be the truth.
So, for today, as I am about to leave the house with my children, I will remember how I’d like this map of mine to age…. I will remember to laugh more than I worry, encourage more than I reprimand and smile more than I frown.
~K
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