Age

I wonder if we allowed nature to take its course and we accepted gray hair, lines, sagging bodies and saw the beauty in that...would we not be a better society? Would we accept mortality and thereby enhance life with wisdom and kindness toward others....would we be humble and generous? If all stars saw life as limited.....would movies be different, fashion? art? music? What would the Beatles be like if Paul McCartney was gray and simply missed his first wife and fellow beatles? Would his work be different? What if Michael Jackson accepted his natural deterioration- would he be there for his children? Aging happens despite surgery, cosmetics and magic acts..shouldn't we accept it as it arrives then face everyday with fear? Potential is in growth and strength ..not avoidance....

Why?

Our young girls walk into school with short, too short shorts and loose tank tops...it is not appropriate. How did our youth become cheap and well, sleazy looking..?? Calvin Klein! Ever since the Brooke Shields commercials that proclaimed "Nothing comes between her and her Calvins" youth became a market. A market for fashion and for portraying fashion as something unattainable by adults. Thus jeans , the backbone of the working man, become fashion and "designer" and botox necessary...no one can compete with a sexy 13 year old in skin tight jeans...a knowing 13 year old. A new merchandise market born...and we accepted. Lolita's charm was that she was unaware..but in "our great age" we prostituted our youth for wealth for the few, and an aging complex for everyone over 25. We bought it and sold it and now we live with the consequences. Life and its stages are not beautiful...Levi is not good enough and wrinkles are the enemy..... J Brand, Botox, even men wear Spanx...we beg for youth but "time"s winged chariot "carries all of us "off". Accept the stages of life like seasons because they are our teachers....accept and learn. Please..preserve childhood .