Wrinkles in My Time...
This was written for my AAUW Talking on Paper gathering that is happening tomorrow.
Shakespeare penned, "With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come." Okay, so maybe that's the cause, maybe I'm more mirthful than my smooth skinned contemporaries. While I'd love to believe that is the cause, I know better. Though I am mirthful, I have only myself to blame!
Olivia Williams said, "My skin may have wrinkles but it's because I'm smiling so much. That might sound like some terrible American Greetings card, but I feel it's immoral for me to castigate my body for getting older, when it does everything I ask of it." With each crease, I do recall events that caused me to smile and each day I awake, I am grateful for my chance to be here even longer. Olivia is so right.
When I think of all the wonderful adventures I experienced in glorious sunshine, I do smile. My life has been fortunate, gleeful and overall incomparably incredible. I wouldn't trade any of it, any day. Oh but I would, if I had the chance to do it all again, wear sunscreen and a hat.
Since there is nothing more to be done about what has already happened, I'll be better protected in the sun and I'll continue to seek out quotes that provide me solace. I especially appreciate the one by Clarence Day who wrote, "Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character." Admire wrinkles... I like that idea a lot.
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I had to laugh about head size and finding hats to fit. As you know, I have a small head (and thin hair), so its hard to find hats that don't fall over my eyes. But having worn them for decades is paying off. Hopefully Harper will embrace them from a young age. Nic doesn't even wear sunglasses, because it interferes with her makeup. Sigh.
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