Loose Skin

Last night I touched my hand to my face while on the computer and realized how loose my skin was.  I mean, I still look "tone", people still think I am about eight to ten years younger than my real age. But I am changing. My sister-in-law worries for us, she worries about us getting those folds on the side of our face from the sides of our nose to our mouth, actually she thinks we already have them, she said one of mine is deeper than the other, which was a little startling, I wake up in the middle of the night and remind myself to turn my face the other way, but outside of worrying about one line being deeper than the other, I have been so busy trying to make time for the book, my son's life, remembering to be happy, books I need to read, blogs I need to write, I really don't worry about getting folds and lines. That's what happens, we are getting older--time to make sure we develop our minds, so we still have our edge regardless of some laugh lines. I have seen some older women that are kind of sexy and cool, they take care of themselves inside and out, and when they laugh and the lines show, they just look like a person who's had a lot to laugh about, a person who doesn't let life weigh on them. ( Opposed to the people with lines across the forehead and a naturally turned down mouth, you can cut bangs for the forehead, but when you have a permanent frown, that is kind of hard to shake. It's a habit that has become your natural face.)

I used to work at a bar with a man much older than myself, he burned the candle at both ends, opening the bar and staying up too late there and it always kind of freaked me out that when he started getting tired, a lot of extra room would grow from the outside of his eyeball to the lower rim of his eye--it would actually start to separate, the lower lid skin would bulge out and make a little pocket.  His skin was just tired, his eyes were tired, his body needed rest but he wouldn't give it to his body. He died there at that bar, God love him, in his sleep in a back room of the bar.

I think it is just a matter of balance, like everything else. Take care of yourself, nourish your body, exercise, get sleep, if it taste good eat it in moderation, drink but don't get drunk, floss. (I have my nerve offering advice, but I work on it, hee hee, I am conscious of it all and often take heed.) However-- don't get so wrapped up in the physical that you forget the rest. Take a class, read a book, learn something...the skin is just the outside part, our thoughts, our knowledge, our passions, our true inner core, our true beauty, lies within. If you only depend on the outside, you're not going to have much substance.The flesh is of matter, one day we will lose it like a snake sheds his skin. One day it will no longer be needed. And when it gets left behind, you will be left with nothing ahead.