No one will accuse Michelle Pfeiffer of not aging beautifully, but what about the average person who doesn’t have the fabulous genes to keep looking gorgeous despite of the passage of time? “Boomers are the most resourceful and inventive generation in history. Aging is one wall we can’t climb over. We accept it intellectually but resist it emotionally. The impulse to create a new way of being 50, or 60, or 70 includes wanting to retain something we all prize — physical attractiveness. This midlife dilemma, says Nobel laureate Doris Lessing, is one in which ‘a whole dimension of life suddenly slides away, and you realize that what, in fact, you’ve been using to get attention, or command attention, has been what you look like.'” Read more here.
