There's nothing that keeps its youth, so far as I know, but a tree and truth. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
I may be totally off on today's quote but oh well! It's my blog so I can interpret as I want! Ha!
We all are aging. No matter what we might try to maintain our youth we fail. We are all aging. No amount of botox, surgery, fast cars, etc will help us with the quest to stay youthful. So why not focus instead on the things that matter and do keep their youth? I'm going to bypass the tree part of Holmes quote today and go straight for the other, more important in my opinion, part. Truth. When we choose honesty we choose youth because the truth never ages. It maintains its youthful glow. The picture I get in my mind is that of wrinkled skin versus smooth. When we choose lies and falsehood we create wrinkles. And what do we do with wrinkles? We try to smooth them back out with cremes and such. We try to cover them up and hide them. We put a lot of effort, and money, into doing this. Same thing with lies. When we tell them we then go to a lot of effort to cover them up, smooth them out, and hide them. Usually we do this with more lies and sometimes we will even use money to aid us. But when we choose truth and honesty we are maintaining a smooth surface where nothing needs to be hidden and whatever is exposed is okay.
Now in real life we are all bound to get some wrinkles - I hope mine are from laugh lines. Those kind of wrinkles are okay, they tell a story of youth in a different way. But if I get wrinkles from the downward turn of my mouth and the knitted together brow from worry that my lies will be exposed then I'm telling a whole different story. Which kind of face are you putting out there for display?
I may be totally off on today's quote but oh well! It's my blog so I can interpret as I want! Ha!
We all are aging. No matter what we might try to maintain our youth we fail. We are all aging. No amount of botox, surgery, fast cars, etc will help us with the quest to stay youthful. So why not focus instead on the things that matter and do keep their youth? I'm going to bypass the tree part of Holmes quote today and go straight for the other, more important in my opinion, part. Truth. When we choose honesty we choose youth because the truth never ages. It maintains its youthful glow. The picture I get in my mind is that of wrinkled skin versus smooth. When we choose lies and falsehood we create wrinkles. And what do we do with wrinkles? We try to smooth them back out with cremes and such. We try to cover them up and hide them. We put a lot of effort, and money, into doing this. Same thing with lies. When we tell them we then go to a lot of effort to cover them up, smooth them out, and hide them. Usually we do this with more lies and sometimes we will even use money to aid us. But when we choose truth and honesty we are maintaining a smooth surface where nothing needs to be hidden and whatever is exposed is okay.
Now in real life we are all bound to get some wrinkles - I hope mine are from laugh lines. Those kind of wrinkles are okay, they tell a story of youth in a different way. But if I get wrinkles from the downward turn of my mouth and the knitted together brow from worry that my lies will be exposed then I'm telling a whole different story. Which kind of face are you putting out there for display?
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