Day 1: Retail Therapy and Physical Transformation
I’ve been internally conflicted lately – a feeling I’m neither accustomed to nor do I quite understand how to deal with. Therefor I have decided upon self-imposed drastic measures. For the next five days, I will be embarking on a quest. I don’t know exactly what I’m looking for – inner peace, peace of mind, self discovery… I suppose I’d settle for a general acceptance that I don’t have control over what happens in my life.
I suppose the key to enlightenment takes time and patience, but I’m taking a different approach. For each day, I will enact a different tactic to find what I’m looking for. I will document my discoveries here, so stay tuned.
Day 1. Tactic: Retail Therapy
This is a tactic that has served as a reliable mood enhancer in the past, making it the logical first step on my road to peace. The pleasure of shopping coupled with the pleasure of new things sans the worry of monetary strain (thanks to a few gift cards I’ve been stashing since my birthday).
Top buy: a locket on a chain. I have written a few of my worries and unanswered questions and stored them inside for safe keeping. Putting these in my necklace and keeping them off my mind is step one to accepting things I can’t control.
Day 1. Tactic: Change in Outward Appearance to Foster Change Internally
They say that when women lose control of their lives, they hang on to the things they can control – like their hair. I’ve been known to dye my hair purple after a bad break up (that isn’t what this is about by the way, in case you were thinking as such), and cut off about 6 inches when I graduated from college as a part of coming to grips with the real world. I don’t think it’s exactly my form of a disguise – more like the biggest change I can make with the smallest effort. The easiest way to feel more fabulous and in control with only $6 and 35 minutes. It works for all those people on What Not to Wear…
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Soundtrack of Day 1: Corrinne Bailey Rae “Like a Star,” Sara Bareilles “Bottle It Up,” Grand Ole Party “Gypsy March”
More to come, my friends…
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