Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Wrinkles? Who cares!

There's this procedure of inserting a needle into those fine wrinkles on your face to relax your muscles and in turn smoothen those crow's feet, laugh lines, and frown lines on your face to make you look younger. But there's a catch. You would need to do this every 4-6 months, or may be more often as you grow older and those wrinkles really set in.

I always wonder, why would anyone want to do that? In the quest to look perennially young, don't you think you're playing around with your own self esteem? I don't know about others, but for me, looking good is not the same as looking young. You change as a person as you grow, then why should you not want to change the way you look? I wouldn't want needle jabs all over my face (the claim is that it feels like a tiny ant bite... now as age progresses and wrinkles increase with it, just imagine the number of ant bites you would need to suffer). No I wouldn't want that. Talk of a fit healthy body and that's a quest everyone should look for as long as they live. Talk of a mind that's young at heart, that's willing to adopt change and that makes leeway for a newer generation... and that's exactly the type of person I would want to be when I get older -- Fit in mind and body-- So what if I have a few wrinkles? They're just going to add character.