Thinking a lot about aging lately. I'm starting to look older. I notice it most in the morning, when I roll out of bed, stumble to the bathroom and see myself in the mirror. That's when the lines and bags and sags really seem to show up.
Clearly aging is an inevitability, so the trick - there is always a trick - is to age gracefully. Here's where I struggle, and it turns out it's in my blood to struggle.
My mom is 70 years old. She dyes her hair brown religiously. To me that seems a bit like hanging on. I understand the blue/gray aversion but maybe that blonde/gray or heck, just let it go natural. I guess I figure best case scenario you enjoy the age you are and use whatever benefits that age has to your advantage.
So with new resolve in my heart to age gracefully, not to hang on to youth and all that...
...I put my nose ring back in.
Oh yeah, I'm going to be just fine at this aging thing....
Posted by heyhansen at December 18, 2004 05:48 PMJust like men are the only ones who say 'size doesn't matter', aging gracefully is a concept of the good-memoried unarthritic. There is nothing graceful about aging. It's like saying you're going to go bankrupt gracefully.
Posted by: ll at December 18, 2004 09:15 PMIf you're going bald, there are three ways to deal with it:
1) Decide not to care what your hair looks like
2) Shave your head
3) Comb-over/wig/toupee
I don't know exactly what I'm trying to say, but it seems that aging has the same three paths available.
Posted by: uh at December 21, 2004 07:07 PM