They say beauty is only skin deep, they say wrinkles are
a sign of earned wisdom, they say…
But in the foggy mirror in the early morning hours or the
harsher, bright neon light, late at night there is no way avoiding it or
pretending it is not happening.
The deepening lines that won’t fade away anymore, the
puffy eyes, the thinning hair they are here to stay.
They say,” wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles
have been.” (Mark Twain) it’s a sign of wisdom earned through life experience.
But they also say, iron out the wrinkles; let’s get it
right this time.
They call them the ‘golden years’ with a fleeting smile
that flickers and gone.
Golden indeed...
***
They say “age imprints more wrinkles in the
mind than it does on the face. “(Michel de Montaigne). They say “age
wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.”(Douglas MacArthur)
They also say “hard work keeps the wrinkles out of the mind and spirit.”(Helena Rubinstein)
They also say “hard work keeps the wrinkles out of the mind and spirit.”(Helena Rubinstein)
Or
maybe she meant that with hard work (and a lot of money) one can smooth out the
wrinkles?
***
Some retreat to stale jokes;
“Jewelry takes people's minds off your wrinkles.”(Sonja Henie) or “We have to be able to grow up. Our wrinkles are our medals of the passage of life… “(Lauren Hutton) “If God had to give a woman wrinkles, He might at least have put them on the soles of her feet.”
And others will go even further with this cheap demagoguery
aimed to convince that growing old is just a fun filled process and ‘life is
just a bowl full of cherries.’
“With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.” William Shakespeare
“At times is it seems that I am living my life backward, and that at the approach of old age my real youth will begin. My soul was born covered with wrinkles-wrinkles that my ancestors and parents most assiduously put there and that I had the greatest trouble removing.” Andre Gide
“With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.” William Shakespeare
“At times is it seems that I am living my life backward, and that at the approach of old age my real youth will begin. My soul was born covered with wrinkles-wrinkles that my ancestors and parents most assiduously put there and that I had the greatest trouble removing.” Andre Gide
“…at the approach of old age my real
youth will begin?
Symbolically perhaps, but the real wrinkles
will they be smoothed away too?
Not according to the following statement from the
man who was not spared a thing. Definitely worked hard, did not lose his spirit
and quitting was not even in his vocabulary. So his words ring true.
You said it Job !!!
Week 14 gives great pain and difficulty to the unwrinkled--they are so wrapped in their flawless young skin, they simply do not understand the instruction to step outside it for a second and yet to inhabit it too.
ReplyDeleteTo do week 14 successfully, one must sometimes look into the mirror and not recognized the face because one's mental image of oneself is stuck somewhere in the first Nixon administration. To do week 14 successfully, one has to have been able to do week 2; they are variants of each other, both demanding perspective and a bit of distance, aloofness, resignation, fatalism.
Well, you already know all that!