Growing Up
Why are we so afraid to grow up? To look as though we have some experience? To tell each other how old we are? There are obvious reasons. If we are still in the working world, people assume younger workers will be more attuned to the current technology, that they will be more creative and have more energy. This is often not the case. If you are looking for a partner, it matters if you want to start a family. But somehow people have become obsessed with looking young, spending large amounts of money to fix the lines in their faces, their teeth, their muscle tone. Of course we all wish to be attractive and healthy at any age. Part of this perception is in ourselves, and part in the thoroughly enculturated person glancing at us. When I was a kid, we would note a person trying to look younger than their age, dressing flirtatiously. “Mutton dressed as lamb,” we said. We felt sorry for the person, sorry they had lost their dignity in trying to be something they were not. People in the Mi...
