What I never really understood was why it seemed necessary to wax off most/all of one's eyebrows just to use a pencil to fill them back in again. I guess that was back in the day when skinny eyebrows were the 'in-thing'... ?
Yes. I have a friend who has skinny eyebrows dating back to the early '70s, which never fully grew back in.
Mine are getting sparse only now that I'm 50. But so is most of my hair elsewhere. Even the hair on my head, though not noticeably thin yet, does not grow long in certain places. It just stops growing, the way eyelashes only get to a certain length and then stop. Very frustrating.
I also knew very early on that I didn't want any kids. When I was a child I used to think I fantacized about having 12 kids
I was the opposite of this. Never wanted kids as a child, never played with babydolls, just had no interest in maternity at all. I felt the same way throughout my teens and even my 20s.
But in my mid-30s, I decided to give it a shot. For me, it felt like part of the human experience I didn't want to pass up.
So I had two. And raising them has been much, much harder than I ever envisioned (to be honest, it's much much harder with my particular two than it is for most parents I know). Still, I've never regretted it. Not for a second. Not even on the worst days.
But that's just me. Everyone is different, and my experiences don't t necessarily say anything about anyone else's.
BTW, if anyone is interested, Salon ran a series a couple of years ago called "Maybe Baby," in which writers on all sides of the issue discussed their choices to have or not to have. Later, it was published as a book.