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Re: Still a stranger to myself

Silver; I repeat, we are silver-haired!

I think that most of us see ourselves in our mind's eye as thirty something, and are surprised when the mirror doesn't reflect that.  Our hair is the most obvious thing, but I find the lines and sags just as surprising. I see it as a good thing that we see ourselves as young and vital.  It keeps us acting young and vita
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--- In deciding_to_go_gray@yahoogroups.com, "randomcaprice" <keridwen@...> wrote:
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> I decided to go gray in December 2007 and I'm finally there. But I am still having a problem seeing myself as gray haired. Wondering if anyone else is experiencing the same?
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> In my mind's eye, when I envision myself doing something in the future, or reliving something in the recent past, I see myself as a red head. Not the gray head I have become. I am still startled when I catch a glimpse of myself accidently in a mirror.
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> Don't get me wrong--I love being gray. Love the freedom, love the look, love not having too vivid hair which looked bizarre at my age. BUT....I just can't seem to get used to the real me. I kind of feel like a stranger in my own body. Very weird...
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I decided to go gray in December 2007 and I'm finally there. But I am still having a problem seeing myself as gray haired. Wondering if anyone else is...
randomcaprice
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Aug 5, 2009
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I know exactly what you mean! (I still see myself as 25! That's why I don't LOOK in mirrors anymore. LOL) "Red Head" is more than a hair color - it's a...
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Aug 5, 2009
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Hi Random- I would just go easy on yourself and allow your inner self to catch up with your outer self organically. Don't worry. Be happy. Stephanie ... -- ...
Stephanie Y Rothman
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Aug 5, 2009
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Silver; I repeat, we are silver-haired! I think that most of us see ourselves in our mind's eye as thirty something, and are surprised when the mirror doesn't...
lololinn
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Aug 5, 2009
12:34 pm

Go for a very short haircut, it have to change completely your look. You will find the new woman that's you. After this you can also decide to go back med long...
luisa
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Aug 5, 2009
12:55 pm

Well, now I will definitely agree with this. I seem to have integrated my hair change pretty much seamlessly (so far, anyway), but I definitely have done a...
Anita Fiedler
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Aug 5, 2009
11:26 pm

I have exactly the same thoughts. Sometimes I think...I am not old and gray and then I realize I look young and gray.  It has something to do with society and...
Cindy Crowe-Urgo
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Aug 5, 2009
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I thought I might experience that disconnect, but so far I'm not. I don't know if that's because my hair change isn't as dramatic a change as yours or what....
Anita Fiedler
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