Youth is a highly valued commodity in our world. Plastic surgery, botox, personal trainers, vitamins and minerals galore. Our society and our culture is obsessed with youth and youthfulness. We spend literally billions of dollars a year trying not to look our age. But is it worth it? Let's take a look...
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Trained as a classical, concert pianist, I stepped into the world of music as medicine in 1990. It is a fantastic adventure! It has taken me around the world and I'm eager to keep traveling!
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For most of my life, people told me that I didn't look my age. A few people tell me that now, but not quite as many! I do think that genetics has a lot to do with how youthful people remain. When I was married in 1971, people thought that Charles and I looked like kids even though we were 23 and 21 respectively. The others in this picture are my younger siblings.
I believe that a person's attitude to life and their fellow earthly citizens plays a large role in how gracefully they age? How are YOU doing? What are some of your secrets to staying young?
THIS is SCOTT WADE. Check out what he does with the dirty cars by carefully and artfully removing portions of the dirt. According to his website, he lives real close to a dirt road in San Marcos,Texas....
I was just thinking that we all prize youth so highly and yet age also has tremendous benefits. I know that personally, I would trade the wisdom that has become a highly prized gift, for any amount of youth, smooth skin, beautiful hair and boundless energy. At 60 I still feel amazingly energetic and when I look in the mirror most days, I don't feel too bad about what looks back at me.
Unfortunately, advertizers and beauty product creators would have us believe that unless we look "young" we can't really look beautiful. It seems like a commonplace to say "beauty is only skin-deep" and "beauty is on the inside" but really, I think beauty and youthfulness can't hold a candle to wisdom. And that only comes with age. Your opinion?
We live in a culture that really values youth and youthful faces, bodies, and interests. Every year, people spend thousands of dollars on surgeries, products, physical trainers, and special foods and diets so that they can look younger and cheat old age and even death. Why the obsession with beauty and youth? I believe that as we age, we look back to our youth with longing and wistfulness; we think of things we did and didn't do. We think of our first loves and our unrequited loves. We wish we could go back in time with the benefit of what we know now, but of course, we can't. If ever there were such a thing as a time machine, however, it would be music! You know how you feel when you hear music that you danced to in high school, or the music that was popular when you fell in love for the very first time. Social scientists have studied the phenomenon of people in their "senior year" who are put into an environment of, say, 40-50 years earlier. They walk straighter, see and hear better, and generally feel better! So what does this say? Well, you can't redecorate your house in the style of 50 years ago, but you can certainly listen to lots of music from that era. I'll include an excerpt of some of my favorite music from high school! Enjoy!
