The Illusion of Youth

Youth is sought after obsessively by people in the United States. Every other commercial advertises a wrinkle creme, a new cosmetic procedure or some easy fix shot that will give you the lips of a puffy 19 year old. I have no idea in the least why any mature beautiful woman would go through the humiliation and degradation of using these products. The youth of adolescence brings worries, identity crisis, pain and awkwardness (which causes wrinkles...why not keep those badges of survival?). I believe that silver hair and laugh lines are a beautiful part of the aging process representing beauty and knowledge. Heck I will be beaming if I still have hair to go silver when I am 78. Aged women search out beauty to look like young women....Old men search out young women to feel young. Youth is a fleeting and vain pursuit that can only lead to heartache. From the moment we are born we are aging. Kaiser Permanente says it best: Who says it is disgraceful to dance a lambada at your granddaughter's wedding? To use the the abused cliche your only as old as you feel, How true! What is youth but the beginning of the journey to the end. Important is the journey not the benchmarks along the way.