No One's Getting Out of Here Alive

"...I feel so extraordinary Something's got a hold on me I get this feeling I'm in motion A sudden sense of liberty..." New Order, "True Faith" Ageing is the most exposed thing that any of us will ever do - simply by living. Everyone who lives will go through this process but ever since the 5th Century BC, humanity has persisted in trying to prevent it - ever searching for the fountain of youth. And after all those centuries, immortality still eludes us, and we are vulnerable because of it. We perceive ourselves as vulnerable because we see youth as the pinnacle of our being. Age is held up as the evidence that we are losing our footing in the race of life. We love to celebrate birthdays but the more we have, the less we want to acknowledge what they represent. Old age seems like a box we don't want to tick; but the only people who evade it are those who escaped it entirely. Think.....who paid the ultimate price for beauty in perpetuity....still so keen? Sarah Silverman, comic and social observer, raises an interesting point. In a conversation with Jerry Seinfeld, she noted that there are lots of girls today who watch their mothers fret over every wrinkle in their attempt to hit "the pause button" - at every opportunity, at any cost. This widespread ambition to stop the clock makes our next generation fear their own ageing, as they become unwilling to daydream about their own futures. Consider for a moment that you're pre-to post pubescent and maybe even a young mother...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news