There are plenty of consolations for aging.
But the physical decay of your body is not one of them.
It is this simple: everytime I see a present day photo of my face, I am unhappy with what I see. And then when I see that same photo five years later, it looks a lot better than what my face looks now. I get older. The photo shows that. It cannot be avoided.
In wthe larger scheme of things, I don’t care too much about my appearance. S was s An outsized concern for the meretricious aspects of your persona is unseemly, in my opinion. I hold that any man who counts calories or weighs himself routinely should have his man card revoked. (I have not stepped onto a scale to weighed myself since the 1980s, outside of a doctor’s office.) A man worth taking seriously paints his hair to appear younger? (I doubt it.) “Vanity, vanity – vanity is all” in our country. There is almost no limit to what Americans will spend on hair dye, anti-wrinkle cream, or a thousand other anti-aging artifices. But I myself am not spending money on any of that stuff. I don’t contribute to the American vanity/beauty industrial complex.
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