Why are we obsessed with looking young?
Human beings are contrary creatures. When we are
young, we did everything to look older, confusing it with maturity and dressing
up to look more worldly and sophisticated, at least in our minds.
Then we age and start hitting those milestones of 30,
35 and the rest and suddenly we want to stop the ageing process and be youthful
and spritely again. So the hemlines get shorter, our hairstyles more chic and
we drink green juice and do yoga as if these will compensate for the fact that
our age is no longer on the calendar.
Indeed, the older we get the more we try to reverse the
ageing process, men and women alike. So why aren’t we allowed to age gracefully?
Why all the hoopla about being forever young?
The following represent some general views on why
youth is supposedly wasted on the young:
1. The media drives this obsession created by the
beauty products industry: So if you do
not have a batch of face creams and moisturisers dresser you are being left
behind
2. Women tear down other women down and the first
thing that they go for is looks: You could be the best mother and an incredible
career woman, if you do not look like or aspire to look like Kardashian
apparently something is wrong with you.
3. Some men leave their spouses for younger women: This
then translates to young women have all the luck and all the men
4. Youth is associated with vibrancy and health: Unfortunately
a lot of people think that as you get older, sickness will be your constant
companion
5. People want
to look like their favourite celebrities: Nine times out of ten, these are hot
bodied individuals with nice abs and cushy tushies and millions of dollars to
maintain them.