Monday 3 February 2014

GETTING USE TO GETTING OLDER

 getting older is actually a tought time in every woman,s life.In the morden world,everyone over forty is already outdated and written off.So mostt women want to turn back the hands of time. over 20 billion dollers is spent on cosmetics yearly, over 300 million dollars on plastic surgery,you see very old women with big standing boobs, instead of sagging one,buying into youth quest. Letty cottin Pogerbin in her wonderful book "GETTING OVER GETTING OLDER"  said "the time a fifty year old woman spends trying to look thirty or forty is time when she is not fully present in the here and now-- not living in the moment, but longing for something that will forever be beyond her reach. Time squandered in search of youth is time indentured to a myth"When you look into the mirror what do you see? passage of time, why do we wish that  we should reclaim our youth and live it again. why do we compare ourselves with our age mates, comparing lines and wrinkles.to be continued

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