miércoles, 26 de junio de 2013

¿Está sobrevalorada la juventud? / Is youth overrated?


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Yo diría que sí y, en mi opinión, cada vez más. Cualquiera puede ver en su respectiva ciudad mujeres de cierta edad (porque sobre todo afecta a las mujeres y principalmente a las que han pasado los 40) intentando aparentar la mitad de años de los que tienen. Visten, se maquillan, se calzan, se mueven y actúan de acuerdo a esa mitad de años ¿porqué? ¿porqué una mujer de 50 años tiene que aparentar 25? ¿para qué?. Hace tiempo iba a una peluquería en la que la peluquera, que era muy graciosa, me dijo una vez: “ese tipo de mujeres son las mujeres del susto”. A lo que yo contesté: “¿cómo del susto?” Y riéndose me dijo: “Siiii, del susto porque son mujeres que se cuidan físicamente hasta el extremo (haciendo dietas draconianas, aplicándose potingues mil, vistiendo como jovencitas, etc..) y aquí se tiñen y se arreglan el pelo (incluso melenas largas) como si tuviesen 25 pero cuando se dan la vuelta: ¡ahí viene el susto!”. Ambas nos reímos un montón de la ocurrencia pero creo que es harto reveladora.
 
I’d say yes and, in my opinion, each time more. Anyone can see in their city that women of a certain age (because it mainly affects to women and mainly to women who have past their forties) trying to pretend half the age they are. They dress, make up, wear shoes, move and act according to that half age they pretend, why? Why a woman in their fifties has to pretend to be 25? What for?. Some time ago I used to go to a hairdresser’s where the hairdresser, a very funny lady, said me once: “that kind of women are women of the fright”. I replied: “How’s that?” Laughing she told me: “Yees, women of the fright because they are women who physically take care of themselves to the extreme (doing very hard diets, putting on a thousand facial creams, dressing almost like teenagers, etc.) and here they come to take care of their hair (even long hair) as if they were 25 but when they turn round, there it comes the fright!”. We both laughed a lot about the anecdote but I think it’s absolutely significative.
 
Yo tengo 48 años (49 el próximo 27 de Agosto), o sea que sólo me quedan dos para entrar en la cincuentena, y en absoluto me gustaría volver a los 25. Estoy convencida de que cada un@ es quien es y lo que es gracias a que ya pasó por ese momento de la vida y perdura lo que en ella aprendió. Nadie puede tener la mente de una persona de 50 y el cuerpo y la cara de una persona de 25, ni es natural ni lógico. Cada uno es quien es y debe aceptarse (o intentar aceptarse) tal cual es, con la edad que tiene y como la Madre Naturaleza le haya permitido llegar a ser (que los genes también influyen eh? jaja). ¿Estáis de acuerdo?. Un abrazooo
 
I am 48 years old (49 next 27th August), so I’m just two years away from the big fifties, and I wouldn’t like at all to come back to my 25. I am convinced that each of us is who he/she is and what he/she is thanks to passing through that moment in life and it remains what he/she learned during it. Nobody can have the mind of a 50 year-old person with the body and face of a 25-year-old, it is neither natural nor logical. Each one is who he/she is and has to accept (or try to) himself/herself  as he/she is, with the age he/she is and as Mother Nature has allowed him/her to come to be (genes also have their influence eh? jaja). Do you agree?. Hugs!!!
 
 
 

2 comentarios:

  1. So agree with what you say. I am almost 61 my how the years go by. The only thing I do is dye my hair still - I started to a long time ago and now have a hard time deciding to let it grow out as it is not all one color and I don't like the way it looks. So for now I will continue to dye it for awhile yet - but no matter how many lotions a person uses the wrinkles on the face and neck appear - nothing to do about it unless you are a movie star and have money for surgeries.

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  2. Hi Karen! I think it's just thinking that with the years you lose something but at the same time you gain something, and the battle against time is lost beforehand so better to get used and like what the mirror reflects each morning when we see ourselves in it. Love!!

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