BEAUTY, AGING AND MIDLIFE- PART 2

Another fabulous read for women is a book I found at Anthropologie, called BACKWARDS IN HIGH HEELS by Tania Kindersley and Sarah Vine.  It is an international bestseller, and I can see why! It is such a fun read!  It's irreverant and witty, as it addresses all of the issues we struggle with.  Here is just a sampling: love, food, career, men, health, dressing and shopping, motherhood, age, beauty, sex,  and more.  Because of my previous post on aging, I thought I would quote some of the pearls on that same subject but from this source, beginning with my favorite one:  "The term, 'anti-aging' is one of the more nonsensical of the modern age.  It's like saying anti-breathing or anti-the-planet-turning-on-its'-axis."  I mean, who are we kidding?  We are ALL aging, unless we're dead!
   "There is nothing wrong with beauty itself.....and nothing vain or shallow in wanting to make the best of what you were born with......but no one worth loving is going to care a lick that you look five years younger than your actual age or have no wrinkles.  The ones who love you properly will not give a damn that age is leaving the traces on your face.  What they care about is that you make them laugh so much that their stomach aches with it, and that they can call you up when they are caught in melancholy, and that you make the best chicken soup.  Those are the things which are the true beauty, the one that lasts, the one that means something.  They are the only beauty that actually matters."
   "Think of the old people that you really admire.  The octogenarians you most adore will still have curiosity, enthusiasm and jokes in abundance."  Personally, I am blessed to have three older women in my life whom I love and admire so much.  One is 93, one is 85 and the other is 81 and the word that comes to mind when I think of all of them both is spunk!  They are still grabbing life by the tail, wrinkles and all.  They are what I want to be when I grow up!!