The Grey Diaries: The Grey Buddy
Do you have a grey buddy"
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Do you have a grey buddy"
I’m not meaning BFF, a partner in crime, gal pal, bestie or confidant; I’m taking a grow-in-the-grey buddy. Let’s say grow IN rather than grow OUT, as it’s an entirely new and exciting challenge and chapter.
It helps to enjoy this “grey” process rather than stress about how the hair is looking and the best way to do this is with a buddy. I had a couple of friends who journeyed with me and I have a couple now that I am encouraging on their “silver voyage”. Like any task requiring stamina, willpower and desire it helps to have moral support. It makes all the difference.
It’s not the same to have role models.
This is important – photographs or online images to aspire to and admire – but it is a secondary aid.
Having a real friend go through exactly the same feelings and emotions is the true value. You probably won’t experience the highs and lows at the same time but you will understand how to help when they hit. Growing in the grey is a very different process to dealing with the grey once it is a full head. Mine is well and truly established and yet I still rely on friends to keep me on the straight and narrow; the same with the length.
A grey buddy is the one who makes the doubts disappear. It’s their voice we hear when the noise around is screaming, &ld...
The post The Grey Diaries: The Grey Buddy appeared first on Vicki Archer.
Do you have a grey buddy"
I’m not meaning BFF, a partner in crime, gal pal, bestie or confidant; I’m taking a grow-in-the-grey buddy. Let’s say grow IN rather than grow OUT, as it’s an entirely new and exciting challenge and chapter.
It helps to enjoy this “grey” process rather than stress about how the hair is looking and the best way to do this is with a buddy. I had a couple of friends who journeyed with me and I have a couple now that I am encouraging on their “silver voyage”. Like any task requiring stamina, willpower and desire it helps to have moral support. It makes all the difference.
It’s not the same to have role models.
This is important – photographs or online images to aspire to and admire – but it is a secondary aid.
Having a real friend go through exactly the same feelings and emotions is the true value. You probably won’t experience the highs and lows at the same time but you will understand how to help when they hit. Growing in the grey is a very different process to dealing with the grey once it is a full head. Mine is well and truly established and yet I still rely on friends to keep me on the straight and narrow; the same with the length.
A grey buddy is the one who makes the doubts disappear. It’s their voice we hear when the noise around is screaming, &ld...
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