Hair, makeup & beauty products, vain lifestyle, gym membership, fashion labels, media & entertainment industry, healthcare to tourism ad gimmick (like the latest New Zealand’s tourism campaign with the controversial Forever Young theme song) have been endorsing people to STAY YOUNG. It seems that the world around us evolves anything that would keep us YOUNG eternally. People worship everything to obtain that infinite youth; buying beauty miracle potions to keep them wrinkle free, injecting collagen under their skin, to dyeing their hair to hide some gray strands, anything that would hide that aging sign.
Some people are willing to go to the extreme and do whatever it takes to keep the fountain of youth by having cosmetic surgeries, liposuction, facelift, botox, and all the latest technology procedures, just to maintain their ageless physical appearance. While there’s absolutely nothing WRONG with it, and everyone has their own right to do whatever they please; by ‘maybe’ finishing their wrinkle-eraser night cream one bottle a day or hitting the gym daily, for straight 2 hours. Let’s take a moment and embrace how people in the past were able to age gracefully without any technology interference.
(above photo, courtesy of the Sartorialist)
