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Hey! What\u2019s up? Long time no see. Listen, I\u2019ve spent more money on skincare products in the last few years than in any other period in my entire life. Why? Well, because I\u2019m aware that we\u2014women only\u2014must fight the war against ageing every single day. I see all the ads and read all the literature you print, like in\u00a0Vogue<\/em>,\u00a0Cosmo<\/em>, and\u00a0Architectural Digest<\/em>. They all read like brochures for getting a facelift, and, no thank you, I\u2019m not interested.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hey, wait, don\u2019t start scrolling on your phone. I\u2019m still talking. Now that we haven\u2019t seen each other in over a year, you might notice that there\u2019s a little bit of loose skin draped like a curtain dividing the left side of my neck from the right side as if each side suddenly became modest. Please don\u2019t tug at it. It\u2019s skin. No, I don\u2019t want to put on a turtleneck. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Look, I tried to fight it. I bought a five-hundred-euro neck cream that boasts a \u201ctri-structural complex\u201d while simultaneously injecting algae from the bottom of the Mariana Trench!! I figured one of them could hold up skin or reduce wrinkles. I figured one creme could reduce dark circles under my eyes. I used a seventy-euro jade roller that needed to be put in the freezer twice a day in the hopes that I could roll the skin back into place. This is all simply expensive bullshit that DOES NOT WORK. How can a creme make your wrinkles disappear? THINK, woman! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yay! At least no one grey hair yet. Nice! But sometimes dark circles under my eyes from studying all weekend with my son. Dry hands from cleaning and chopping food. Hold on, where did this wrinkle come from? Please take it off my face. I just want to talk to you. Speaking of my face, I did facial exercises every day to keep my cheeks right up against my eyeballs, but they\u2019re doing their own thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yeah, I\u2019m still good on the facelift brochure; I haven\u2019t changed my mind about it at the last minute. No, that\u2019s incorrect. Women don\u2019t change their minds every minute. Quit spreading that myth, please, and let me talk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve also lost several kilos because I had so much stress during the last couple of months that I couldn\u2019t eat\u2026and now some weirdo is honking a car horn at me because I AM DRIVING TOO SLOW TO GET TO MY SON\u2019S PARENT\/TEACHER MEETING AFTER WORK! Why is he doing that? Never mind, I\u2019m trying to make a point about how my body has changed and how I\u2019ve changed along with it. For fuck\u2019s sake, stop trying to give me that facelift brochure! Oh, it\u2019s not the brochure. What is it? Ah, I see; it\u2019s a\u00a0coupon<\/em>\u00a0for a facelift. Yes, you\u2019re right: I shouldn\u2019t have assumed. I\u2019m sorry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do you want to hear the great news? A byproduct of ageing is that I love myself exactly as I am, and I don\u2019t need anyone else\u2019s approval\u2026 I\u2019ve simply grown wiser, gained confidence, and discovered inner peace. SEE HOW PEACEFUL I AM ? WHY IS THIS GUY BEHIND ME STILL HONKING ???? The straitjacket is unnecessary too, my friend. I don\u2019t feel crazy (yet) and I\u2019m NOT HYSTERICAL. I\u2019m just saying that I\u2019m a happily unmarried, single-child-raising-woman over forty, and it took a lot of physical and mental work for me to realize that I am okay and to get me to where I am not in life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Where are we going? Why are we walking into the utility closet at a local supermarket? Are we even allowed in here!?!!!? Holy shit, this store has a secret portal!?!? What is this white room that extends to infinity in every direction? And who are all these women\u2026?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wait a minute. Is this a place where women can just be the way they are? And these are all the women between the ages of forty and fifty-five who have decided not to fight aging? Wow! I always wondered where we disappeared to in Society\u2019s (your) eyes. Honestly, a theoretical void is a lot kinder of a result than I would have expected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thank you, Society. I feel better. You wanted to make me feel sad, rejected, frustrated, insecure, unfulfilled, and completely discouraged? I\u2019m sorry to let you down. What we see in these commercials and beauty magazines is not real anyway. Ageing is okay. It is normal. We all do it and you cannot hide behind cremes, lotions, potions and Botox. I guess I forgot to mention the other byproduct of ageing: lack of self-confidence and insecurity. I no longer feel any of those things because they\u2019ve all been replaced with happiness, self-confidence, and inner peace. Most of the time. STOP HONKING! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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