I wish I could recount all the times in the recent past when I heard a friend, acquaintance or other exclaim " 'It's' positively liberating!"
I'm not one to have felt the shackles that much of humanity has felt, or my peers for that matter. I spend much of my time in jeans, without makeup and, to be honest, I often walk out of the house with wet hair, the first glance at myself for the day in my rear view mirror. I do clean up rather well when need be but I dress down even better. And so I'm finding this statement plain humorous.
Just tonight Judy, having decided to spend a "oneymoon" (my coined term for time alone) weekend and forgo the college visit with her teenager and husband exclaimed how liberating it was to be dining alone on China Cola and pretzels by herself - no cooking, order-in, dishes... - my friend who I rely on for her astute movie and theater reviews was home watching reruns of CSI.
Jen felt free to announce to an office full of us just how liberated she felt going barefoot in her winter boots every day.
"Rain. Lost the third umbrella this week. Who cares anyway - I have a hooded sweatshirt," Julie said last week.
Maybe it's a 50-something phenomena. All the more surprising since we grew up in the mid to late 60's rebelling against everything!
Maybe we all could use seats to the revival of "Hair" to help remember and forever peel off our Spanx, breathe better, and "Get over 'IT' !", once and for all. That's liberation.
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