Posted on 12/24/2005 4:28:46 PM PST by presidio9
Heads up
Our society has waaaaay to many products to sell people who worry about things they cant change.
"For guys my age, investing in your face is less of a priority than investing in a house or car," says Josh Levitt, a 23-year-old in Laguna Beach, Calif. Still, even he has started using anti-aging products at the urging of his mother, who wants him to preserve his "golden boy" looks, as she puts it.
That's one strange relationship there.
Vanity is one of the Seven Deadlies for a reason, people.
Maybe she doesn't want to be seen in public with him because it says something about her age.
Actually, Adam's sin and the resulting curse made us this way.
Old, wrinkled and knarly is called "character". No thanks on the snake oil, I'll spend my money on a decent gym.
pssst...
No 80-year-old looks 20. Get some internal grace, sit back and enjoy the ride.
:-)
Better they should apply themselves to fighting liberalism.
GAAAACK! What'd I ever do to you????
:-P
:-)
People should be taught to make peace with reality. And not waste worry and money on futile attempts at postponement of the inevitable. Cheating the toll of time sells bottles of products, no question about that. God forbid people actually get excercise, lose weight, get proper sleep, eat right, stay away from drugs, etc.
"Each minute bursts in the burning room,
The great globe reels in the solar fire,
Spinning the trivial and unique away.
(How all things flash! How all things flare!)
What am I now that I was then?
May memory restore again and again
The smallest color of the smallest day:
Time is the school in which we learn,
Time is the fire in which we burn."
-Delmore Schwartz
A mild bit of vanity seems ok to me. My wife, a 48 yr old grandmother, can pass for <35 if she dyes her hair a bit. And I run a lot and try with marginal success to keep the fat from piling up.
But plastic surgery or covering yourself in creams seems awfully silly. One of the things I admired about Audrey Hepburn is that she aged. Which is better than the Mary Tyler Moore death mask approach.
Laguna Beach is the 3 dollar bill of Orange County, CA.
You are right there, botox looks so fake
That grabbed my attention. Who wrote that? Thanks.
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