There are the crappy ones. Expensive ones. Thrift store no-names. Dark ones. Light ones. Go-to ones. Ones that make you look great. Skinny ones. And your highschool ones that dont make much sense but you keep close for old-times sake...
Finding decent jeans/friends, let alone great ones, is a battle. But once you find that perfect one, you can trust on them for years.
I bought 3 pairs of jeans on the same day 3 years ago, and they have traveled with me everywhere ever since. If I went on a trip, I would take these 3 pairs because they were reliable and dependable. There wasnt much guesswork because I felt comfortable in them. Similarly, in the past few years I have held onto a few close people and trusted and relied on them to an extreme ammount (I feel). I couldnt conceive that maybe I would lose them one day or have to trade them in for anyone else.
A couple weeks ago, I found a hole in one of my sacred jeans. My best pair. I grabbed for my next available pair and surprisingly there was a delicately thin patch in the same place, and on my third pair, as well. Three jeans, entered my life on the same day and left together on the same day as well. It's like I was too busy using them that I had started to believe they would stick around with me forever.
So, I hit up Calvin Klein and got a really anti-Gloria pair of jeans. They're just not me. And I love that. I love being able to step into something else. I'm not going to lie and say I threw away those 3 pairs of beloved stretched-out denim...I still have them. I don't really know why, but I think its for the same reason that I keep all of my friends-even those that I seem to have grown out of- at a reasonable distance. I keep those jeans just in case I might want to wear them again someday. Or make cutoffs out of. But I dont want to ever burn out a pair of jeans/ a person ever again.
It's ok to grow and to change. It's ok to shed your skin. It's the way we were made. Keep on moving. But just dont throw it away, you might need it again someday.
~<3
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