The desire to be older but remain looking younger has become a huge moneymaking market. Yesterday, at a dermatologist appointment and while I was waiting for the doctor, I began to read the magazines they provided. But the only parts of the magazines that were in the office were the articles about cosmetic surgery. There was botox, of course, lip plumping, some treatment to make your eyelash’s growth increase and grow longer and darker, and there was even an article about taking fat from one area of your body, via liposuction, processing it, and then putting it back into your face to fill in wrinkles. To my knowledge, no other culture places as much emphasis on youth and beauty as the United States. In the US, beauty is achieved through looking young and youthful. But if aging is the natural course of life, why do we try so hard to fight it?
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