How Beautiful!

What a beautiful sitting room.  I love beautiful things.  I yearn to surround myself with beauty, and yet whenever I'm ready to give in; I hear the echo of my dad's voice saying:  "We don't need that!"  That phrase, was my dad's rallying cry all throughout my childhood and adolescence.  Men just don't get it. 

One of my favorite movie lines is from Hello Dolly!  Dolly Levi tells the raging chauvinist Horace Vandergelder that he needs:  "To let women, be women".  Yet, that is still a lesson, I'm trying to learn.

Why is it that I always go for the practical rather than the pretty?  I always, always feel guilty about buying pretty things for myself.  I feel wasteful, and condemnatory.  It feels like a god-forsaken extravagance. 

It's time to put on my big girl bloomers, and have the courage to be the woman I've always wanted to be.    

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