This woman is so beautiful, don’t you think?
My pal and I were chatting the other day when she turned to me and said, “You know, you could get some Botox for those wrinkles on your forehead. I think you’d really like it.” Huh! True, I didn’t sleep well the night before. When I got up that morning and looked in the mirror, all I could think was, “I look like a turtle! Where did all these lines come from?!”
But I’m not interested in Botox or a face lift, lip enhancement or a tummy tuck. I think once you get started with cosmetic surgery, you’ll never believe that you can look good just as you are. I know it can be hard to accept that we’re aging with all the pressure on us to appear youthful.
When I was in Brazil, the cradle of cosmetic surgery, I saw an elderly gentleman with a decided stoop using a cane to balance his unsteadiness. When he turned around he had the tucked, unlined face of a man 50 years his junior and the hands of an 80-year-old. It was frightening. No thanks.
I earned every one of these lines, sags, and spots. They tell the story of a life filled with laughter, mistakes, love, heartache, neglect, passion, anxiety, and utter joy. The more I think about it, the more I’m committed to the changing face I see in the mirror. I’m just glad and grateful I’m still here to see it.
Surgery would make me look younger but why? I’m not young. News flash: Everyone ages. Besides, I don’t like a standard where we’re asked to hate ourselves for looking or being different. What you see when you look at my face now is me unvarnished and untouched.
If you feel the need to surgically change your looks, that it will somehow change your life for the better go for it. But before you do, take a good look inside yourself. Maybe the way you look isn’t really what’s bothering you. Beauty radiates from you when you’re being yourself. When you laugh, smile, and cry. Because it’s all about loving yourself that blossoms beauty in the end. And you, not a magazine or a society crazy about youth, get to decide what’s beautiful for you.
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