We are born into these bodies.
They grow up.
They mature.
They grow old
and then they die.
That is the natural order of things.
The inevitable.
The unavoidable.
No matter what.
But our culture
conditions us
daily,
to fight the natural order;
to go against the flow…
buy botox and face lifts
and lipo and collagen
and tummy tucks and implants
and skin scraping
and augmentations…
Chase youth.
Chase it...
to exhaustion...
‘til your spirit
is bankrupt,
or you die.
Which ever
happens
first.
No one mourns
that beautiful,
spent energy
that might have created
beautiful art,
a magnificent garden,
or raised a happy child.
We’re all being fooled.
Every day.
So no one knows
that
for this body
to grow old and die
really is
actually
okay...
and
nothing
to
fear.
davidjohn
Pro 
You are very thoughtful but sometimes its better to pretend we go on forever even though we know we dont. !
I often wish that I had 10 lives, relationships, writing , business, academic. photography, travel and on and on. There isn't time to read enough. David.