Well damn I'm sorry I aged.

I posted a throwback photo onto my facebook and some of the comments were something else. They either were about the night it was taken or stories from back then or about how horrible I look nowadays. The comment that inspired this all had said "Oh my what happened to your face nowadays" I'm sorry but aging is something I can't control. I have the exact same face just older.The other comment that made me want to talk about this said I liked you better when you were young now you just look scary. I'm sorry but everyone ages. Some age better than others and unfortunately I was the unlucky recipient of aging like milk.If I may be honest even in my youth I was never the definition of classical handsome. I'm 59 is it really expected I look as I did in my 20s or 30s? My collagen in my skin has decreased should my value as a person be decreased as a result? Are we older people just supposed to hide in our homes all day feeling bad about our changing appearances? Are we supposed to stop living life and mourn what we once had? Of course not we still are living our lives I won't stop because of rude comments. I won't stop because I'm old. It's ridiculous because someday you will be there too or perhaps already are.

Let me say when I was young I used to see older people around town. I'd think to myself I hope I don't turn into that someday. As the years passed I did become that very thing. We all will become that very thing. Yes, we age physically but we can still retain a much younger spirit and energy. I'm not hiding in my house all day I have a life to live and I'm going to go live it. Who knows how much time I have left. I may have 10, 20 or 30+ more years nobody knows and I'll be a monkeys uncle if I'm going to live it in shame and sorrow over some wrinkles.