HEEEEEEEEEEEERE’S MOLLY:

so recently i got this STUPID haircut because around christmas i got this STUPID hair treatment that was supposed to make my hair lustrous and mermaid-like and instead fried the shit out of it to the point where it was attacking itself from the bottom up and i literally had to amputate 4 inches of it to save the rest.

all this mess from just tryin way too hard to be a babe. got me thinkin. when i was in mexico this past week, i felt like a huge ugly stupidface with my dumb hair and for whatever reason it was really bumming me out.

then i went on this silly snorkeling boat, where almost everyone there was on their ‘second honeymoon’ with their hubby. ALL the old men had these huge, bulbous, sunburned beerbellies…and all the women had dimply wobbly thighs and blubber floppin through their life vests. but whatever, they were SO HAPPY! they were smiling away, hittin up that open bar and frantically pointing to trumpet fish like it was their last day on earth. because they were still smiling, still vacationing, still swimming after all these years. beautiful or not, they learned along the way where real joy is.

i guess its a good idea to learn early on that as long as you dont put all your eggs in your beauty basket, or some other trivial basket, you’ll end up alright. because duh, beauty fades, sometimes romance doesnt last, but snorkeling is forever. 

but for real. brings me to two of my favorite quotes from two very wise people. 

“worship your body and beauty and sexual allure and you will always feel ugly. and when time and age start showing, you will die a million deaths before they finally grieve you.” -david foster wallace.

“just go with the guy who makes you laugh. because trust me, at the end of the day we’re all gonna be fat and gray sitting next to eachother in our rocking chairs, and it won’t matter how cute he used to be when you’re too old to find someone new and he can’t make you smile.” -anna’s mom