It is time to say good-bye. It is time to say good-bye to my lime-green jacket and my pink polka-dot skirt. Why you ask? It is a long story. But.
The story has a happy ending.
Once upon a time. There lived a woman. She only shopped on the sale racks. The color she really wanted was full-price. She walked to the back of the store at the end of the season and bought the lime-green jacket that was on sale. She didn’t like the color. She preferred darker colors. But. The jacket was on sale, it was her size and her friends kept telling her to wear brighter colors.
Once upon a time the woman went shopping for a skirt. She only shopped on the sale racks. The color she really wanted was full-price. She walked to the back of the store at the end of the season and bought the pink polka-dot skirt that was on sale. She didn’t like the color. She preferred darker colors. But. The skirt was on sale, it was her size and her friends kept telling her to wear brighter colors.
Once upon a time the woman had a birthday. All of the candles on her cake could not be lit without the first candles melting into the icing. She realized that her life was melting into everyone else’s expectation of who she was supposed to be. She was melting into a lime-green, pink polka-dotted person with a pink ribbon at her waist.
Once upon a time the woman went into her closet and bagged up all of the clothes that were not her. They were bought for someone else. Someone who likes to wear lime-green and polka-dots.
Once upon a time the woman went shopping on her birthday. She walked past the yellow and red and orange down jackets from last season that were on the sale rack and she walked to a full-price rack and bought a black down jacket from this season at full price. She would no longer wear the colors that were on sale. She would no longer buy whatever was left over from last season as long as it was her size. Buying bright colors because her friends said she should wear bright colors.
Once upon a time the woman decided she was worth full price. She didn’t have to only shop on the clearance racks.
Once upon a time the woman decided she would be herself. She would wear black. She didn’t have to listen to her friends.
For the rest of the woman’s life she would be herself.
One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being yourself.
― Shannon L. Alder
Be who you are. You are worth full-price.
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