“Age is a Privilege”.
This was something that Oprah Winfrey said when she interviewed Cameron Diaz recently. I felt connected with this as so many people I knew didn’t make it to the age I am today. One of them was a young girl, aged about ten, who was mowed down by a motorist. Nowadays, we are bombarded with messages to ‘stay young’, basically writing off the rest of our years. It is ridiculous that wrinkles can supposedly ‘hold us back’.
People are ‘encouraged to take up plastic surgery’ to reduce their laughter lines, and the multi-million pound beauty business tries to give people complexes that we are not acceptable unless we are twenty. Often the plastic surgery goes wrong, and this can be costly. Is it really worth it?
I met an old lady on the day I made this, who gave us a talk on Classical Greece and learned a lot. It is crazy how the media and various occupations writes off older people just because they have wrinkles. We are very lucky to even get this far, and I imagine people who are currently in a children’s hospice not being able to ever grow old.
It is right that we should question it.
This craftivsm piece is dedicated to Emma, the girl who got killed by an irresponsible driver.
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