“Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.” ~ Robert Browning
According to my husband and children, there is nothing less attractive or more pathetic than someone trying to hold on to those last vestiges of youth.
ves·tige/ˈvɛs tɪdʒ/
noun
1. a mark, trace, or visible evidence of something that is no longer present or in existence: A few columns were the last vestiges of a Greek temple.
2. a surviving evidence or remainder of some condition, practice, etc.: These superstitions are vestiges of an ancient religion.
3. a very slight trace or amount of something: Not a vestige remains of the former elegance of the house.
4. Biology . a degenerate or imperfectly developed organ or structure that has little or no utility, but that in an earlier stage of the individual or in preceding evolutionary forms of the organism performed a useful function.
5. Archaic. a footprint; track.
Enter Demi Moore. Man, she's looking more and more like a hot mess and really just needs to get a grip. She's a beautiful woman with an incredible body. But somebody needs to slap her with a dose of reality and remind her she's not 25 anymore. She needs to dress and act a little more appropriately. I'm not saying she needs to lay down and die but what happened to growing old gracefully? Hello? Can anyone say Sophia Lauren? Michelle Pfieffer? Julianne Moore? Sela Ward? Brooke Shields? Sandra Bullock? Elisabeth Shue? Sharon Stone? Lauren Hutton? Candice Bergen? Laura Linney? Marg Helgenberger? Jodi Foster? Robin Wright (AKA Princess Buttercup)?
“And the beauty of a woman, with passing years only grows!” -- Audrey Hepburn
“It`s not how old you are, it`s how you are old.” -- Jules Renard
“You don't stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop laughing.” -- George Bernard Shaw
"It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily." ~ Arnold Palmer
"The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully." ~ Eric Hoffer
And finally, this gem from Roger Moore (this is probably the one I most identify with!). I've accepted the fact that I'm getting older, I've accepted the fact that I can't turn back time and I've accepted that there have been and will continue to be changes to my face and body. However, I also accept age is just a number and it's what I feel on the inside. What's most important is how I deal with it. And everyone deals with it differently. I plan to stay RELEVANT.
"You can either grow old gracefully or begrudgingly. I chose both." ~ Roger Moore
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