You dont have to go to far to read a thread with poster remarks on older men/women that are really unkind.
Personally I dont care how old looking I become just as long as the good Lord and my body chooses to stay in the race.
And grateful for the length I have been here and every day I wake up with everything still functioning enough to stay independent.
How a person ages depends on how they treated their bodies all their lives. While you’ll never be able to undo the damage already done, it’s never too late to start eating properly and getting into better shape to prevent further damage and extend the time you do have left.
Isn’t it amazing that all those people who once said they’d rather live hard fast and loose and die young but happy turn out to be the ones who will try any magic potion that comes along in hopes of turning back the clock they’ve sped up.
It always seems that when you are young, you have all the time in the world, but when you get old you realize that time goes by way too fast, a lifetime is very short.
Yes! Our society worships youth & despises old age. I do not care if I look "old" when I am old! I wear it as a badge of honor. I had my chance to look young when I was young & now I will grow old with dignity. The Good LORD gave us wrinkles and white hair as we age - this is the way it is meant to be.
There are lessons to be learned while we are here on this earth & vainly, desperately, reaching for youth when we are aged and saged - just looks plain ridiculous! These people that think they look good with all of this artifice are only fooling themselves. They look like freaks!
Aging may be "natural", but that doesn't mean it has to be inevitable. Years from now, people will look back on aging the same way we look back on other diseases for which there was once no cure but which are now easily overcome with a shot or a pill. Keep an eye on resveratrol and drugs that mimic it. See Sirtris for example. Aging's about to go the way of the dinosaur. I just wish they'd hurry before I get much older.