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Growing Old With Grace (update)

665 views. 2010-8-6 14:22 |Individual Classification:Reflection|

What will you look like in 20 years? To be honest, for me it is quite a creepy question. Shallow or not, just like many other women I also feel a little helpless about the aging image I find in the mirror. I am not young any more. Cynical lines managed to etch on my face; gray hairs started to appear; pores on my skin have already stood out. Although my even-featured gave me an edge and I might still not be hard on the eyes, passing time has already left its cruel marks on my face. In another twenty years, who knows?  Would I wear my years with grace or would I completely be crippled by the terrible thing named Age? I usually would stop this line of thought, shut it down immediately.

 

Today I found this interest website: http://www.in20years.com/, it would tell you what you will look like in 20 years. Out of curiosity, I uploaded my picture and, honestly, the result was quite a shock:  Wow, What a formidable old woman I will become!

 

 

I felt as if I’d received a blow to the chest, blindly I stared at the picture I was supposed to be 20 years later. Then I uploaded my husband’s picture. He looked, well, not bad, in fact not bad at all. He looked more harsh, and even more manly with grooves bracketing his month and lines of maturity at his eyes. Why years always set well on men? Probably that is because they never bothered by things like getting old. Subconsciously, I re-uploaded my picture, but this time I change the gender from Female to Male. Haha, I looked much better this time:

 

 

If I were a man, 20 years later I might be passed for a handsome old guy, which is nothing but my ego talking, but right now I need every bit of ego I could rustle up.

 

Then I took another look at my first image. Strangely it was not so harsh to look at this time. Is it so terrible to grow old? No! The answer erupted itself from my subconscious, reverberating through my entire body. We are normal people; we are supposed to get old. Asking for staying young forever is like asking for a miracle, stupid and ridiculous. Outside, we might be powerless to fight against the time, but inside, we can always find a way to keep our heart young and fearless. If we aged, we should age with grace.

 

I also tried makemebabys.com, and I can’t help but smiling at the result. That should be my son’s picture:

 

 

 

So cute! But how could two Chinese give a birth to a foreign baby?

 

 

 

 

Post comment Comment (15 replies)

Reply Chenlinyu 2010-8-6 14:50
So funny!
Reply bluephoebe 2010-8-6 14:56
Chenlinyu: So funny!
This website is quite popular now. i recommend it to one of my co-workers, and she spend a whole morning uploading all the pictures she had, and created an a album named See You In 20 Years!
Reply Chenlinyu 2010-8-6 15:16
bluephoebe: This website is quite popular now. i recommend it to one of my co-workers, and she spend a whole morning uploading all the pictures she had, and creat
Wow! The Internet speed is too slow!
Reply RedLizzie 2010-8-6 15:32
Time is fleeting. We cannot stop the wheel of time, but we can make ourselves look like young. Keep your heart and mind energetic.
Reply bluephoebe 2010-8-6 15:39
RedLizzie: Time is fleeting. We cannot stop the wheel of time, but we can make ourselves look like young. Keep your heart and mind energetic.
Good advice Outside, asking staying young forever would be like asking a miracle. Miracle doesn’t happen to normal people. We couldn’t be like Panyingzhi, who still look like in her 30th when she is actually 65 year old. But inside, we can always keep our heart young and energetic.
Reply bluephoebe 2010-8-6 16:03
Chenlinyu: Wow! The Internet speed is too slow!
Really? last time i tried, the spead is bearable. Good luck
Reply Chenlinyu 2010-8-6 16:56
bluephoebe: Really? last time i tried, the spead is bearable. Good luck
Yeah! I will visit it when I have free time.
Reply maud 2010-8-6 23:39
Fun!
Reply bluephoebe 2010-8-7 08:06
maud: Fun!
Reply sddzzqq 2010-8-7 14:43
Interesting!
Reply venus 2010-8-7 22:30
It's funny, I tried it too. It seems that the "I" in 20 year's later looks better than the present "I". I put the pic. in my album,haha
Reply bluephoebe 2010-8-8 07:45
venus: It's funny, I tried it too. It seems that the "I" in 20 year's later looks better than the present "I". I put the pic. in my album
really it is. i envy your luck!
Reply Samaritan 2010-8-8 11:24
haha, nice try.
Reply rich 2010-11-2 19:02
let's keep a normal heart and not bother to worry about old age, just take it as it comes. :-)
Reply JessicaMing 2010-11-3 16:08
Is it real?? I hope I will always be young...

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