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Jane, your assessment of aging sounds like a Greek tragedy... and while those things you describe are, in fact, tragic I see aging as liberating in many ways. It's gran that its harder to keep the activity level up to maintain vitality, and much easier to sit in a rocking chair content to watch the world pass by, but those are both choices. They are health choices we make in diet, exercise, and staying challenged and engaged. When you're no longer engaged in life, you lose vitality. And I believe that vitality is beauty... and that can, in fact, be possessed at any age.
I think that Tony's post sums it up well. "Beauty" need not be surrendered merely because of aging, and it truly is more than skin deep. I really take offense at the cultural norms that evolved around beauty in the past forty or so years with the "Twiggy" and "heroin chic" body types. The cultural norms of "beauty" before that time were, in fact, about health and vitality. Much of what we see today is really unhealthy.
JaneG wrote:
You can be philosophical , but ageing is a difficult time for men and women ...you can try the inner beauty thing.. But given the opportunity I am sure most people would opt out
Only if you acknowledge the issues can you tackle them head on and come to accept life's changes ..,you can't tell people how to feel .
They will feel how they feel..
I am not that hung up about external beauty otherwise I wouldn't have put my knobbly knees on show
But this isn't really about 'Beauty' that's your interpretation ( which is welcome ). it is about the loss of vitality, of vigour, losing fitness and strength, losing memory and mental acuity. beauty that is superficial !
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