Anais Nin, now 53, writes about aging: "there is a difference in the aging of men and women which I hope one day we can eradicate. The aging of man is accepted. He can age nobly like a prehistoric statue; he can age like a bronze statue, acquire a patina, can have character and quality. We do not forgive a woman aging. We demand that her beauty never change."
Sags, wrinkles, menopause, watching your looks fade, competing with the 20-somethings and their sharp minds and technical skills. Sometime around age 50, you realize that death applies to you whereas at 20, you were immortal. It's time to eliminate the unessential, the irrelevant, the waste, the unimportant, and at 50, you can identify all of this. Can you identify the emphasis on beauty to be unessential, unimportant and eliminate it?
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