I’m having a hard time getting older. Sometimes I feel like I should be perpetually twenty eight years old. Other times, I gasp when I see photos of myself looking older than my age. The wrinkles! The fine lines! The weird gray hair growing in at my roots! I don’t like it one bit.
I’ll tell you something else, I hate feeling so shallow about aging. I wish I could be graceful and accept that my jowls are going to sag, my eyes are going to look tired and my neck is going to look like a turkey’s gobbler. Not to mention the thickness around the middle, the empty water balloon boobs, the extra heft in the saddlebags that no amount of lunging and squatting can remedy.
I don’t think I’m alone in my feelings, I mean do you watch the Real Housewives of Orange County? Face It: What Women Really Feel as Their Looks Change by Vivian Diller Ph. D. and Jill Muir-Sukenick, Ph.D., explores the attitudes, thoughts and fears women share about their changing looks as the year rush by. I’m only about 2/3 of the way through the book but so far, so good.
I’d like to walk away (in my Easy Spirits) feeling confident about the aging process and not be trying to cram myself into a mini skirt and tube top from Forever 21 this summer in order to look young.
From their website- “This unique perspective helped them develop a six-step program that begins with recognizing “uh-oh” moments that reveal the reality of changing looks, and goes on to identify the masks used to cover deeper issues and define the role beauty plays in a woman’s life, and ends with bidding adieu to old definitions of beauty, so women can enjoy their appearance—at any age!”
I’ll give you the website for more information since searching for “Face It” on google kept bringing me back to Facebook. Here you go.
