Today at the pool I saw an older lady who looked very elegant. She looked her age, which was around 80, but she was a very good looking woman in every way. I did not speak to her, but I watched from a short distance as she talked to her friends lazing away the late afternoon by the pool. No tucks or stretched chins, no eyes pulled up and back, no botox on her forehead. Just a good looking woman of her age. While I am watching her and the comfort level she shows in her manner, I am wondering how on earth did women get convinced that plastic surgery was a good thing for them. I know that in pictures all the stretching and pulling and tucking looks good, but in the real world of the three dimensions, these women look ridiculous.
I have two main objections, in addition to the look. One is the emphasis in these women having plastic surgery that they do not look good. Now the truth is that most people look very nice already, and when the good Doctors fix these ladies, rather than having them look better, they often look just silly. Lincoln once commented that up until the age of 40 your looks were given by God and after 40 the inner spirit comes out in your face. Now I know that the pictures look better when done by the Doctors, but not so in real life. The second main objection is the lack of internal confidence by these women. They must hate the way they look and feel about themselves, as if the vessel is all that matters. The most important part of a life is what inside the vessel, not what is on the outside.
Women have made great strides in the past hundred years, but we still have a long way to go to find peace and happiness. But we can start by liking ourselves.
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