HEALTH & BEAUTY
still use animal terms to describe ourselves and our actions. Such as: he is a ‘Lone wolf’ to describe somebody solitary or ‘Runs with the pack’ to describe someone who is part of a group. ‘Swims like a fish’, to describe some one’s prowess in the water. As opposed to ‘Swims with the fishes’, which is another situation entirely. ‘Herd like mentality’ is used to describe people who join in and act without thinking for themselves. We don’t know how much a cow or horse thinks before acting but we like to think that it’s not as much as we do. Is it that we are more comfortable in
SHABBY SHEEP A
By Rowena Kitchen
s humans we like to feel we are superior to other species for all sorts of reasons. Hey, we have opposable thumbs don’t you know! However we
but that is the circle of life. Before we bury this analogy in a pile of Rudyard Kipling
like tales lets move onto how these behavioural patterns affect the way we view our appearance and health. We wake up in the morning totally unaware that we want
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a crowd all doing the same thing? Our personalities dictate whether or not we are going to be that lone wolf or the leader of the pack and I think those attributes can be seen very early on. Very rarely do people change their spots! There are times in life when it is important
women in your
circle dress a certain way or wear their hair
in a certain way then you may decide to incorporate some of their ideas and routines into your thinking.
to follow some one else’s lead and those when it is equally as important to make your own decisions or strike out on your own. Sheep for example seem to follow each other no matter what the reason or the result. Sheep can be heads down grazing when one will start to stroll off having spotted a superior blade of grass way over yonder and ambles off in that direction. The sheep next to it will see that their companion is on the move and up sticks to follow it. Within a short space of time the whole flock will be trotting along to the next location.
Being in a pack or herd can be a good thing as it means that the awareness of any approaching danger is quickly spread and the group can take collective evasive action. Of course the slowest of the bunch will be supper for the incoming threat
a pale yellow dress with white trim until a photo of our future Queen wearing one appears in the media and the dress is sold out online within seconds. This is good and bad news for the manufacturer who will sell all the available stock and then rush order some more but the moment will have passed and we are onto the next thing we didn’t know we wanted. This is classic sheep like behaviour. Women like to have friends that they admire in some way and this can mean they either copy them and/or compete with them. Yes, it’s possible to do both. If the women in your circle dress
a certain way or wear their hair in a certain way then you may decide to incorporate some of their ideas and
routines into your thinking. Swopping tips and tricks is part of being in a pack.
If you live in the country side where most days
are spent negotiating mud and rushing from errand to errant then you won’t have many opportunities to wear high heels or flowing white linen. The terrible tendency to tug on the same pair of hopelessly out dated jeans and sensible jumper will take over without you noticing and soon your innate flair for dressing well will buried under a pile of ‘comfortable clothing’. Quick, scream and run for the hills. Where has the real you gone? Three words that are the
beginning of a slippery slope are Sensible, Comfortable and Useful. If you find yourself in a fitting room muttering that this piece of clothing will
be useful take it off immediately and find something that makes your heart sing and that makes you want to twirl. That’s right, ‘twirl’. If one woman in a group decides to dress more imaginatively for whatever reason then it
Illustration by Lisa Wyman
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