Only Skin Deep
By mati. Filed in Life |Tags: wrinkles
The other day, when I was at a friend’s house, we were watching a performance of Barbara Streisand on TV. Her voice was absolutely gorgeous, and when the camera scanned the audience, people were waving, screaming and saying “we love you.” How very nice!
Then my friend started telling me how Barbara Streisand had to have a face lift. She told me that Barbara used to perform when she was younger with her facial skin pulled back with tape that was hidden under her hair. But when she couldn’t get away with doing that anymore, she had to go under the knife. And she said to me that I had to understand the pressure those famous people are under. They HAVE to look good, no matter what their age is. And she said that a person couldn’t possibly perform onstage looking old and wrinkled.
It blew my mind! Why not??? A woman with a voice like an angel couldn’t perform if she had crowsfeet or lines on her forehead??? Does she sing with her skin??? What exactly did the audience mean by “we love you” then? Does even love only go skin deep? Are we really that superficial in our judgment of eachother? I hope not!
This perception, that everybody has to look like teenagers, really has to change. Yes, we need to take care of our outer packaging, our skins, but at the same time, we have to also learn to value the person who lives in the skin. We have to learn to value the quality of the being inside, below the surface of the skin. We have to learn to see beyond lines and wrinkles, or even better, we have to learn to honor wrinkles as an expression of life itself. Instead of trying to stay young forever, we need to learn to accept and honor the natural cycles of life.
I believe that if we live, fully and totally, while expressing ourselves in any way that our talents allow, our lives will be filled with joy and meaning, and when a being is full of joy, who cares about a few lines? If you wake up every morning, excited about going through another day, who has the time to get old? Oldness is simply a perception that has to do with a stuck mind and a life unlived.
Is there life after death? Who cares? The real question is, is there life after birth? That is what we are here to find out. Right here, right now, living life is what matters. Life is prescious, and each moment is a gift that shouldn’t be wasted on trivial nonsense. Besides, if there were no mirrors, who would care about wrinkles? It would be a very different world…
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