What Does It Mean To Be FRILLY WITH TRUE GRIT?
Being frilly with true grit, or just "frilly" for short, is like being Scarlett O'Hara - or Rhett Butler, for that matter. This is not to say that frilliness is simply about being coy, helpless, shallow, superficial, irrelevant and impertinent. Rather, it's to say that frilliness is about being coy, helpless, shallow, superficial, irrelevant and impertinent while actually getting things done effectively at the very same time.
For you see, frilliness has everything to do with sitting around in big pouffy dresses and getting boys to fetch lemonade for you one moment, and then planting crops with your bare hands the next. Or saying insouciantly, but resoundingly meaningfully, "My pet, the world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business." (Margaret Mitchell's Rhett, FYI)
Another wonderful example of frilliness is Amy Heckerling's Cher in the film Clueless. Cher is prima. She wields the ordinary makeover like a weapon, using fashion sense and self-help books to positively transform the soul. She, by the way, refuses to mind her own business and makes appearance enhancements not only to herself but to others as well. Always lighthearted, Cher nevertheless pauses to savor the melodrama. She wears blush, but never applies it with a heavy hand.
BarbieTM is also incredibly frilly and filled with true grit. She's a dentist, a pilot, an Olympic gymnast, a teacher...and she has a dream house, a dream car, and a huge dream wardrobe.
And, of course, there is always Nick Charles of the Thin Man films, who can hear the martini shaker from miles away but never fails to work out the murder mystery.
In summary, frilliness with true grit is about being the salt of the earth but not letting that get in the way of any truly pleasing fluffiness and apparently high-maintenance qualities. It is an enlightened state of being.
The Frilly Meditations are for clearing the mind and heart, for lightening the soul. Or in other words, they are for creating an empty head.
Repeat or contemplate the Meditations whenever, either silently or aloud.
The Frilly Meditations
"I'll think about it tomorrow." - à la Scarlett O'Hara.
"Frankly, Scarlett, I don't give a damn." - à la Rhett Butler. Or alternatively you can try, à la Honey Treetot, "I really just don't care."
"I never did mind about the little things." - à la that Bridget Fonda character from the film where she plays a finishing school assassin.
"Whatever." - à la Cher. When saying this, try making the W sign with your fingers also - gesture meditation!
"Not my problem." - à la Honey Treetot.
And, finally, the Frilly Creed...
"It is better to be shallow and well-adjusted, than deeply pathetic."
Some all-purpose tips for creating the right image:
Your response to insects as a frilly person should really depend on the situation you are in. Following are the basic insect scenarios and the procedures for dealing with them.
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