Style, Sweetness, and Womanhood

Day 5- Do you make purchases to impress others or to reflect your own interests? Is it possible to practice contentment while also being stylish?

Purchases should reflect the individual’s own interests while taking other people’s impressions into consideration. What I mean by this is the purchase you make reflect on you and how others view you. We should not live our lives or make purchases based on how other’s will view it, but there are people I respect and I value their impression of me. I do not want to throw that away. I would not buy something that is not me to impress someone.

I believe it is possible to practice contentment while being stylish. Having style does not require the latest shoes or baubles, but grace and elegance. Those are things that cannot be bought.

Day 6- To be sweet doesn’t mean we stay quiet. How can we take a stand for what’s right while also being graceful, respectful and kind?

By choosing our words wisely, and knowing when to say nothing. Think before speaking. Sometimes less is more. Sometimes it is not about being respectful, but inspiring the respect from those who think differently than you.

Day 7- How do you see women being regarded with contempt or disrespect in the world around you? Have we evolved as a society to embrace womanhood, or has degradation only changed its form?

Degradation has only changed its form in our society. We as a culture, and as women, view those who choose motherhood as a full time job with contempt. We are backwards. We are embracing womanhood as being able to achieve anything a man could in the workplace and at home, but we stop short of the accomplishments of womanhood in the home. We view a woman doctor or manager with respect while we scoff at homemakers. We assume that their jobs are lesser than those in the workplace because they do not have price tags on them. However what they do reaps great rewards, which is why it is so important to embrace this part of womanhood. As a society we need to realize the importance of every individuals work, whether it is in an office or in a home.