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Good looks may fade, so you better have something else.
Remember, Beauty is truth, truth beauty.
When old age shall this generation waste,
Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe
Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say’st,
“Beauty is truth, truth beauty” — that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
John Keats, “Ode to a Grecian Urn”
I remember reading Keats’s famous poem ‘Ode to a Grecian Urn’. Somehow it seemed to speak to me of beauty when I was 17 years old. Now at 68, it seems to say something else.
Signs of aging happens to the best of us. Some accept it and carry on not giving it another thought. Some not so much.
I am in the latter group. While I don’t obsess over it, I do try to slow the process a little.
Some people seem to find a sense of superiority in not doing anything to help their appearance. A lot of those people wore the latest clothes, dyed their hair, put on the make-up, and always tried to keep up. Now, it seems to be the thing to not do any of these things.
I have been working hard to follow my mantra for this year which is ‘You do you and I’ll do me’. COVID-19 has caused most of us to…
