I took a really good hard look at my hands today. Not to admire a great manicure, or my rings, but to be surprised that I have my mom's hands. Not size-wise mind you, she was 5'5'' and I'm 6' even, but the age showing on the backs of my hands. The hands now have age spots & lines...the skin looks like the backside of an old elephant. All these years I've taken care of my face and been pretty blessed with a lack of serious wrinkles and lines, only to find out EVERY wrinkle and line is on the backs of my hands! I was wondering where the face lines would go.
I never had a problem aging, as a matter of fact I had wondered when getting older would bother me. Now it is a few months before number 44, and it finally hits me. I'm approaching my next birthday like most men handle their mid-life crisis. (Ok, no affair...I only have the stomach for ONE man at a time!) I've bought all new makeup, younger looking clothes, I'd go for the convertible if I hadn't just recently got a new car. Mind you, I've never been a fashionista, for the past 5 years I've lived in sweat pants and t-shirts.
All this time I thought I was aging with grace...instead I'm aging into my mother. I'm going to hit the face cream and put it on my hands. That, and a good drink for my soul.
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Welcome to the dark side!
ReplyDeleteIf your hands are the only things that are showing your age, wear gloves. The rest of us overly wrinkled women in our 40s don't want to hear you complain, until they make gloves for our faces.
Mirror, mirror on the wall, I am my mother after all. AT 52, I can tell you it doesn't get better! wait til the skin on your hands starts to take over the rest of your body, and gets to be a size or 2 to big and hangs in folds around you.
ReplyDeleteIt sucks.