I wonder if, for the vast majority of us who look in the mirror and see someone looking back at us that looks "older" than the age we feel, if the quest is really to look like ourselves again, rather than just look younger.
We all know how we look when we feel our best. We are probably fit, and lean, perhaps muscled. Our skin is clear, moist, and maybe glowing a little from good nutrition. Our eyes are bright and clear. Our hair is shiny and trimmed.
Often, as we age, those wrinkles, the extra weight, the gray hair throw us for a loop. Who is that person? I know that I don't want to necessarily look like I did when I was 30, but I want to feel my best, which is linked to looking my best.
So maybe some of all that botox and plastic surgery is about being the best 40something or 50something or 60something or 70something we can be -- the one that most looks like how we feel inside.
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I wonder if, for the vast majority of us who look in the mirror and see someone looking back at us that looks "older" than the age we feel, if the quest is really to look like ourselves again, rather than just look younger.
We all know how we look when we feel our best. We are probably fit, and lean, perhaps muscled. Our skin is clear, moist, and maybe glowing a little from good nutrition. Our eyes are bright and clear. Our hair is shiny and trimmed.
Often, as we age, those wrinkles, the extra weight, the gray hair throw us for a loop. Who is that person? I know that I don't want to necessarily look like I did when I was 30, but I want to feel my best, which is linked to looking my best.
So maybe some of all that botox and plastic surgery is about being the best 40something or 50something or 60something or 70something we can be -- the one that most looks like how we feel inside.
October 17, 2008 - 10:10amThis Comment
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