get wrinkles and fat
freedom comes with that, lightness …
life becomes more fun
For someone who has long been the face of anti-ageing products, she’s decidedly pro-ageing herself.
“You know, you get wrinkles and you get fat and you lose a kind of beauty – that is true,” she says. “But they never talk about the freedom that comes with that. More than freedom, a lightness. When you’re young, you have so many things to prove. You have to prove that you are intelligent, that you’re financially independent, that you’re a good parent. There are so many obligations. And when you’re old, you’re not proving yourself any more. I don’t know if I’m that intelligent or not. I am who I am. You start to say, if I don’t do what I want to do now, I will never do it. And life becomes more fun.”
From the article, ‘Isabella Rossellini: ‘People never talk about the freedom, the lightness, that comes with ageing’ by Guy Lodge, Observer film columnist and the chief UK film critic for Variety.
I have long been at home with what I look like.
As Mr. Churchill said to his barber, “A man with limited means as I do cannot spend time worrying about a STYLE. Just cut it.”
However there are other things I am aware of as I age.
The other day the my wife and I were walking the path around a local park and I looked at the all the work out equipment that had been placed along the walk way.
Chinning bars, parallels bars, sit up benches, push up bars … you name it, it was there.
I tried them all.
Jumped up on the parallel bars and … hung there.
Jumped up to the chinning bar and … hung there, too.
Sat on the sit up bench and looked at how I would have to arrange my body, said nope and got up.
It was a bleak performance.
Then I found the step up bar.
It had high steps around a pole and you were supposed to put your hands on the pole for balance … and step up.
And I did it.
Felt so good, I did it again.
Felt so good I called out to my wife, “I can do this one!”
A half dozen of so 8th grade boys were walking by and stopped to stare.
“Go for it Gramps!” one yelled.
…
When you’re old, you’re not proving yourself any more.
I don’t know if I’m that intelligent or not.
I am who I am.
I say, if I don’t do what I want to do now, I will never do it.
And life has become more fun.
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