Salt and Pepper

Whoever said age is just a number, never did learn his counting!

My first white strand appeared soon after my 40th!
The one which was to be celebrated in Casablanca at Rick's cafe or eating Baklava in Turkey!
But I spent my post birthday worrying about color changes in front of my mirror.
Which of course contributed to increasing my by then several whites!

For a while I kept it a closely combed secret! Being blessed with lusciously thick otherwise jet black glossy hair, the few whites remained carefully hidden!
But I knew and a furtive search for more caused me to let my little secret out!
I had to take my little girls in confidence.
They too searched and alas were luckier than me! They found more stragglers where my eyes could not reach!!

I thought of good looking hunks read Milind Soman and his distinguished salt and pepper looks, Indira Gandhi and her dash of white, well they had already made a mark, I had a long way to go...
Hair dye? No.... That was for oldies... First signs of denial..
A new hairstyle to keep the secret well hidden... To cut my once below the butt hair even shorter than my now shoulder length seemed like sacrilege to me.
Henna... Reds the white, blackens the black.
So that's what I started doing

And upped my Amla intake!
And started working out like crazy to get back to "looking younger"

I am a worrier!
I worry for my own, you and yours!
I worried that my whites showed...
I saw my contemporaries sporting their whites and baldness and scanty hair with pride!
I heard them say how lovely and young I looked and wanted to know if I dyed my hair black!

I proudly said Au Naturel` and wondered if they did see my carefully tucked little secret blowing in the wind.

One year later and several numbers later I know my Black changes to White! There are no Grays! 

I suppose they are a symbol of my maturity, intellect and adds a dash of dignity!

I stopped crazy work outs and now run for fun! Am happy being me!

 I carry my whites with pride which tend to show up now and then.....like shining stars on a moonless sky!