“The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.” – Marcus Aurelius
As we grow older, our bodies change as the rest of the world changes around us. We have, in our society, developed a compulsion to despise some of these changes. We dye our hair from the gray of maturity back to the more vibrant colors of our youth. We stretch our skin to remove the wrinkles of wisdom. Lately, we even inject bacteria into our faces to quell the buildup of life’s tensions. Yet what if we could learn to once again appreciate the changes that life brings to us?
When we were younger, we saw these changes as rites of passage and celebrated them as our crossing into adulthood. Is it possible for us to once again look upon our aging as a healthy thing? Can we find the beauty in our maturity, wisdom, and even the tensions that life brings as it stretches us into becoming the people we are able to be? Instead of seeing our development as something to be slowed or halted, are we able to think of it as merely a blossoming?
Steve McAllister
In addition to serving as Managing Editor and contributor to Modern Hippie Mag, Steve McAllister is an actor, musician, accomplished author, filmmaker, and the man behind Your Daily Groove. His most recent novel, The McAllister Code is available as an e-book at www.themcallistercode.com. Find Steve on Twitter, @InkenSoul. Read his reviews and articles here.
Steve McAllister, Modern Hippie Mag's resident Lifestyle Guru, describes himself as a Renaissance Man. An author, filmmaker, songwriter, and perpetual artistic experimenter, he has recently re-released his second book The Rucksack Letters into paperback to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the journey. His latest book, a comical foray into philosophical science fiction, is How to Survive an Estralarian Mind Meld. His latest artistic project is The Labyrinth of the Unbroken Path. .
So you'll still love me as my face begins to sag and wrinkle…Cool!
Just like wine, people get better with age, especially women, which is why I find it so ironic that women are the first ones to try to stop the process of aging. If only they knew how beautiful they were becoming, maybe they would let nature do its work of making them ever more beautiful with each passing day!
I choose to celebrate life, aging and wrinkles……. we are amazing without any chemicals or surgery.
You can sag all the way to the floor and I'll still love ya'.
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