Act Your Age! - Not Your European Pant Size

"Blessed is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gains understanding, for she is more profitable than silver and yields better returns than gold. She is more precious than rubies; nothing you desire can compare with her. Long life is in her right hand; in her left hand are riches and honor. Her ways are pleasant ways, and all her paths are peace." Proverbs 3:13-17

It never ceases to amaze me how shallow and superficial women can be at times. I've been going through a women's study lately on how to better recognize your worth as a woman and the chapter this week was focused on the different stages of a woman's life. The more I read on the different stages the more apparent it became to me how important the roles are that we take on in each of those stages and how they help to mold and define other women around us as well.

I notice a lot lately, women's reluctance to take an active and functional role in the life stage that they are in and are always trying to progress or digress out of the place that they are supposed to be in. When we're young, we always wish to be mature, older, and independent. As we age we desire to throw off the responsibilities we so desperately desired to have earlier in life and return instead to that duty free era. It's almost as if we live in a perpetual state of discontentment with where we are in life, which makes us extremely ineffective in speaking to and influencing the women around us for the better.

Women were created at the dawn of time with an incredible gift for influencing people around them. It is not a responsibility you can just slough off, it is a matter of life! You are a woman, therefore you are influential in the lives around you. It is how we choose to use that influence that defines who we are. Will we use it for good, to improve the lives of all those around us or will we use it for evil to tear down those around us. You do not have an option to just plain not influence... you can only choose how you will influence.

So much more today I see women in a later stage of life attempting to throw off the responsibilities of the stage they are in and "fit in" with a younger crowd. We spend thousands of dollars trying to look younger so we can squeeze ourselves into this culture's idea of what makes a woman special. We plump up our lips, butts, and boobs and suck all the fat out of our legs and waists. We stretch and contort our faces till they don't even move with expression any more all for the sake of ironing out a few wrinkles and taking what we think looks like a few years off of our faces. It never even occurs to us that if we'd just stress less in the stage that we're in, live life to the fullest, and influence those around us for the good that those telltale signs of age and hard partying wouldn't add on as fast as they do.

Relax. Stress less. Influence those around you for the better. Act your age.