For this reason, I so value movements like #WCW and #goddessrising that help raise women up so that we can ALL collectively feel supported, inspired and necessary. May the girls of our generation start to value the elders, the wise, the seasoned, and look to them for guidance. May we understand that the measure of a woman doesn't come from a fleeting place of external beauty, or number of followers, but from a more profound place of having lived life to its fullest, having taken BIG leaps of faith when necessary, and having learned some tough, yet essential lessons along the way.
Not only have they lived through disappointment; they came out on the other side much stronger as a result, having earned perspective, endurance, and wisdom through their trials.
One of the biggest misconceptions about women is that we cannot survive disappointment — because who among us — after a certain number of years of existence — has not been terribly disappointed? By love, by loss, by pain, by life itself?
Yet we are still here. Still here, and, if anything, stronger as we get older. Stronger for all that we have passed through. This is the truth that all the greatest old women know, deep in their bones.
The women whom I love and admire for their strength and grace did not get that way because shit worked out. They got that way because shit went wrong, and they handled it. They handled it in a thousand different ways on a thousand different days, but they handled it.
Those women are my SUPERHEROES."
-- Elizabeth Gilbert
No comments:
Post a Comment
Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.