Star Ideas-The Beginning

Peace to you all! It's me, AdVintage Star and I am just dropping everyone a line to introduce myself to the world! Star Ideas is my new blog which really is just about me and the insane growing pains I have been going thru lately. I will be 31 yrs old this year and it really just hit me about 3 months ago that I am really in my 30's and that I have been playing long enough. Actually at this point, I have been playing a  little too long.  I have reached a point in my life where the games are over and it's time grow up.  So yeah, back to being 31! What a drag! I mean I love it because I am entering into a new journey, but it's like an official announcement that YOU ARE GROWN!!!! It's time to start being much more responsible and doing all of the things that grown folks do! Okay.....I don't know if that's exactly what's supposed to happen at this age or if I am just slow to develop, but whatever it is, that's what this stage of my life is about. I'm "Finding Myself", I guess you could say. My goals have changed, my wants and desires, have changed, my hair has changed, and my body is definitely changing! I see the world for what it is now and am ready to make my mark in it!
I'm sure you're thinking: "This chick is sooooo random!" Truth is, I am pretty random. But I swear I woke up one day and was like: this is not it. Something had to give. So I began to really pray and meditate on it and I still don't quite have an answer, but I am closer still. I am developing in stages. First it was my hair......which will be my next post cause that was a journey all in itself! Right before I turned 28, I decided that I needed to change. I looked around and didn't like what I saw. I didn't like that I had been caught up in the materialistic bull$%*! that people call their lives. You know, measuring what you have with success...it made absolutely no since to me. Here I was, working hard to obtain some image that meant absolutely nothing to me. I mean, as far as fashion and hair goes, I always kinda walked to the beat of my own drum, but I was still trying to conform and be like everyone else....if that makes any sense. Well, I just got sick of it all and decided one day that I was going to cut my hair off. I waited about a month to get a fair amount of new growth going and then I went to see my sister at the beauty school and asked her to get the clippers and cut it off. She fussed at me and asked me what I was going through, and I politely stated, "nothing," and asked her to cut it. She did and that was the beginning. My natural hair allowed me exposure to a whole other world! I was intrigued to say the least. So I began to research information about natural hair and how to care for it and so on and so forth and as I learned, I began to live a different life.
So, once the hair was natural and I was learning about natural products and better ingredients for my hair, I noticed that I was bored with more than just my hair and began getting myself prepared to walk a new path. I knew that my mind set had to change. I needed to start looking at my life for what it is instead of what illusion I thought it should be.  I began to notice that I don't need all the material things that I thought I needed. I realized that I had my health, family, my right mind, a job, an education, good friends.........what more could I ask for. Those few things I mentioned, some people spend a lifetime trying to find, and here it was sitting my lap the whole time.  I have all that I need and I knew from that realization on  that everything else would fall into place. I just needed to follow my spirit and my heart and life would unfold for me the way God intended it to.
Discovery is a journey many are scared to initiate. I, however, believe that in order for me to truely have happiness, I need to be discover who I am and what I want and be intuned with my spirit. I will only be satisfied if I am living a life that is true to who I am. My problem is, my journey of discovery has just began, and let me tell you, because it is the road less traveled, it is bumpy as hell!!!

And those are just some of my thoughts.........

AdVintage Star!