I have just read an article that brought to mind a totally different experience than one that I have experienced in my life. Here is what I’m talking about. And this is how the article opens.
How might it have been different for you if, on your first menstrual day, your mother had given you a bouquet of flowers and taken you to lunch, and then the two of you had gone to meet your father at the jeweler, where your ears were pierced, and your father bought you your first pair of earrings, and then you went with a few of your friends and your mother’s friends to get your first lip coloring; and then you went, for the very first time, to the Women’s lodge, to learn the wisdom of women? How might you be different?
-Judith Duerk, Circle of Stones
Of course, being me, this sounds like something that is right up my alley. And something that I would love to do for Ivy when she gets old enough. Except knowing how daughters and mothers are supposedly so different, she would probably hate it with a passion.
But it got me thinking about how I can change things for myself in my current life instead of trying to change the past. (Which wasn’t bad, by the way, just very different from the scenario above.)
How do women celebrate their cycle in this day and age? For women trying to get pregnant, their periods are emotional torture. But if somehow there was something special to look forward to if your cycle starts, would it be as devastating? In all reality, yes it would be. But it still would be trying to make the best out of an unwanted situation.
I feel a research project coming on.
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