getting older is a funny thing, you desperately want it, seeing the "freedom" which it holds, anger at your youthful restrictions, and feeling your immaturity. when it finally begins to arrive, it arrives with a vengeance and you realize that the wishing was futile, wasteful. now is precious. wherever in life you are. now is beauty. getting older is rather irreversible. it can't be changed, slowed or stopped.
one thing that really struck me is the obsession of youth with beauty.
the physical is of such importance when one is young. spending untold amounts of money, hours upon hours striving for the hollow satisfaction of the world's standard of beauty. now i look around at those beyond their teens, twenties, thirties and I see wrinkles, gray strands, bent backs. Beautiful in their own right, but according to society, no beauty is to be found. that which we strive for is so fleeting. yet as a teen physical appearance was of the utmost value, determining even your social status. sad.
this video shows the mirage we spent our lives pursuing.