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The loss of youth
It is not discovering yet another wrinkle around my eyes, loss of more skin elasticity, collagen– no, it is the fact that I will never be young again. The changes are irreversible. From now on, it will only get worse from here on out and it is already bad enough. How does one cope with the losing, the changing of a face that we once knew? Changes happen more quickly as we all get older. Aging is sad process, no one is able to stop it. It is like a burial of the person we once knew, vibrant, young, sparkly-eyed with good collagen layers. That is the past, that person died. And other persons, the young adult, the middle-aged person will die too. We live several lives in one. We grow spiritually, mentally, emotionally and at the same time, our body dies. Slowly dies.
I have to refrain from looking in the mirror too often. Then I see a photo of myself and say, no ,this is not me, I must have had a bad day when that photo was taken. But the bad days are not going away. It seems I now only have bad day pictures.
Don’t get me wrong. I still live my life. I laugh. I am not unhappy. But, once confronted with the process of aging, I start getting an uneasy feeling in my stomach.
We really don’t know how bad it will get. We look at our parents, grandparents, ok, they looked decent when they were old, but they also had a different lifestyle. All the stress, the life in the fast lane, the emotional burdens we put on ourselves nowadays have its toll. We pay the price for it eventually, in form of our appearance, our beauty. We live with the fear of not knowing how old and wrinkly we will look like one day. And the fear of not knowing what we don’t know makes us uncomfortable and some of us restless. So, we make little corrections earlier and earlier, because we don’t know how bad it could get otherwise. Thank god, there is help, and a lot of us are using help to fix this or that. We are injecting a crease, a line, with hope for a little bit of youth restoration. And we do it again and again. Just for 6 months we can rest and feel at peace. We see a glimpse of our former self when looking in the mirror. And for that glimpse we sacrifice a lot of pain, money and suffering. But all that is not important. Bottom line is – we see the silver lining of the fountain of youth.
And then what about the other gender? Why is it said men age better? Who came up with this anyway? It seems to stem from the same source that gave us ‘size does not matter’. And we all know the answer to that. Let’s be honest here, some men really do look great, even when old, Richard Gere for example, or Sean Connery perhaps. But, then there is quite a few women who are very well-preserved too, just think Goldie Hawn or even Madonna. Men do have aging issues. The problems they encounter initially are just a bit different from ours - hairloss, beer belly, hair on back vs. crow's feet, breast enlargement, wrinkles around lips.
Fact is - nobody looks better when older, not even kitties, horses or dogs. For all of us living creatures - gravity sucks! .
Nobody likes aging. Everyone would love to have a youthful, wrinkle-free body forever. Even when perfectly injected and filled, a face never regains its youth. It's in the eyes, the tone and thickness of the skin, the expression. This can never be reversed or repaired. Not with any procedure.
Unfortunately, I am suffering the same as everybody else. I don’t have a perfect solution either. Nobody does. What I do for myself is, I use natural anti-aging creams such as Retinol and Q10 and I try to stay young on the inside, I play, I laugh, I do crazy things. That keeps me young. I don’t FEEL old and I think this is the key to survive aging.
Don't allow your insides to wrinkle!
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