I needed to be reminded of this, to slow down, I always need to, and I've rediscovered skincare products in a way I didn't do in my youth... My story isn't just about skincare, or solely about skincare... My story isn't even solely about Slowing Down, although it's very much about the need to Slow Down... And, a few years ago, I began to see skincare as a way to slow down more... to put myself on a complete pause to reset myself... I'm not trying to simplify things and confine my story to just Skincare... Not even to the need to slow down the pace... I'm not trying to explain or imply in any way that life wouldn't be worth living without skincare, absolutely not; life is much more than skincare and beauty. In fact, I could say that skincare and beauty are Privileges that some of us have.

I'll share later, in a different context, my story and my entire perspective on life, which is much more complex than that. You won't leave my pages with an unmatched desire to dedicate yourselves 99% to 101% to personal care and beauty care only; rather, I'd like to instill in you a Desire for a Balance to be placed in your lives – to put it more into our lives – and a desire to Examine, Reconsider, and Reset your Priorities.

I'll never tell you that my view on skincare and beauty care is about them as the absolute priority of life, because I don't believe that and that's not what Life is about, period. There are So Many things and angles about life that we often don't consider, due to such a human indulgence in self-care or maybe we haven't been taught to do so..., . There are so many ways and moments in life that will demonstrate that other things are the true priorities. There are so many people on this Earth for whom life is seen in terms of survival, and not in terms of elevating personal care and beauty. I'm not willing to make concessions to this view of life that I have, not for the sake of a larger blog audience, not for the sake of increasing the number of visitors and buyers in my small shop.

We will get to the part with the shop soon. Let me continue.