{"id":80,"date":"2009-09-12T09:19:27","date_gmt":"2009-09-12T16:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theagingofaquarius.com\/dw_blog\/?p=80"},"modified":"2010-01-31T11:15:14","modified_gmt":"2010-01-31T18:15:14","slug":"the-mirror-lies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theagingofaquarius.com\/dw_blog\/the-mirror-lies\/","title":{"rendered":"The mirror lies."},"content":{"rendered":"

My blogging buddy, Anita, <\/strong>just posted one of her typically charming and smile-inducing pieces on the subject of aging, Fifty is the new forever.<\/a><\/em><\/strong> I suppose that’s what we do here whether we address the subject head-on or just obliquely, through our personal kaleidoscopic lives.<\/p>\n

One of the things I love most about Anita is that aging never seems to give her a moment’s pause or stress. I, on the other hand, am borderline obsessive.<\/p>\n

I look in the mirror only out of occasional necessity and all I see are lies.<\/p>\n

I stopped growing older in my mid-thirties. <\/strong>It was a good age for me. It’s the age I chose to be for the rest of my life. So, as I push sixty (though I prefer to think of it as pulling fifty) my thirty-five year old spirit peers into the mirror at an old man and while I’ve never been especially attractive nor self-conscious it just doesn’t work.<\/p>\n

I can’t feel like this and look like that.<\/p>\n

I know the only option I have in order to re-frame myself is to give up and be my age because I can’t possibly look thirty-five again. That’s fine if I can figure out how to age without getting old. That’s really what concerns us, isn’t it?<\/p>\n

Do I have to turn grouchy? Will I be forced to wear khaki pants and sensible shoes?<\/p>\n

I’m going to work on this self-image thing<\/strong> because I don’t believe it much matters what anybody else thinks of my appearance as long as I’m clean and semi-tidy.<\/p>\n

The thing is — at thirty-five this stuff never crossed my mind.<\/p>\n

\u00a9 Copyright 2009, Dave Williams. All rights reserved.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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