50 Year High School Reunion: All of these old people and me!
I wasn't the only one who looked fabulous at my reunion, but we were a small minority, very small minority. Why? What was different? Of course, the first thought was this was Detroit, the midwest and probably it was that more people are overweight in the middle of the country than in overly body-conscious Los Angeles where I presently live. But they weren't overweight, and they didn't have more wrinkles than I. I realized they were dressing like our mothers would dress and had such dated hair styles (men and women) and it was almost like they had made a decision that they weren't supposed to look great anymore. I was describing the experience to a friend and it feels like we come to a certain age and some people reach a fork in the road of aging and think "60, I am now my mother" and therefore look like their mother (or father) at 60 and then there are others that are being 60 with another alternative, not necessarily looking young, but looking fabu...