I am a girl who quite literally, loves EVERYTHING! I want to see and do all the things. I have different levels of love, but I love being the girl that does it all. This very trait I hold has sometimes sent me into a “crisis”.
For example, when doing those fun little quizzes that you see online daily (you know the “this or that” quiz). It’s almost like a mini heart attack for me, because a lot of the things I can’t decide. I like them both! Beach or Mountains?? I want an option that allows me to have a beach in the mountains. This is just one small and silly example of my life. Another one is, the confusion of me being a girly girl or a tomboy. I came to my own conclusion of creating my own name…The Girly Tomboy.
I am a girl who can flip the switch, up pointing to girly and the down pointing to tomboy. I absolutely love to get dressed up in full makeup with my nails done, hair perfect, new clothes, and shoes that shine. But (within ten minutes or less) can wrap my hair up in a ponytail, throw on a flannel, slide on my boots and be running around with the animals in the pasture with all the dirt and grime.
It doesn’t phase me. I like being both girls. I like having a “spa night” that includes a bubble bath, full facial, and a good book. Then, waking up the next morning to go out to the farm and clean stalls or help a goat give birth. I honestly remember a time when I was dressed in my Sunday best and helping a momma goat give birth by reaching in her lady parts and moving around a stuck leg, so the baby could slide on out.
I will say I grew up being the little brother my brother never had. Whom also told his now wife that he didn’t know I was a girl until the 7th grade. Thanks bro… With this I also tell my husband how lucky he is that I had an older brother because I believe makes a big difference (especially if you had an older brother like mine). We would ride bikes over massive dirt piles, pull a wagon full of hockey gear through the woods during the winter to get to a frozen pond for him to make me be the goalie and to shoot pucks at, we would slide through mud puddles in the yard after a rain, etc. I thank God for this, because I believe it helps me relate and converse with men while doing business or in a social aspect.
I think being in the middle of the two “normal” groups has allowed me to become well-rounded and more independent. I am fine on my own, it does not bother me spending a massive amount of time by myself. I also love to be surrounded by people, especially those who mean the world to me.
I think society has given us a few norms we tend to revert to, when in realty sometimes we just fit in more than one group. I am here to tell you that there is nothing wrong with checking both mountains and beach. You can love them both, I mean it’s your life. So, to the others like me, it is okay to be who you were made to be. There is a reason God chose to make you, a girly tomboy.
