C: Vanity, Vanity; All is Vanity
The Book of Ecclesiastes has some wisdom in it, you know…. I ran across this Dove Evolution video, which has been around a couple of years now. It contains a great message that chasing the image of beauty which advertising and popular culture burns into our brain is, indeed, a chasing after the wind. Believe me, having your husband leave you for someone 30 years younger will make you consider cosmetic surgery, but I discarded that idea fairly immediately. Why? The only possible reason I could think of in my particular status to do it was to try to snag a man, and I wasn’t even fishing. Besides, there’d have to be too much surgery—once started with that number-one priority (the double chin…), I’m afraid I’d try to work my way down, as it were. So, I’ll stay as I am, for the moment. I hasten to add that I am talking about ME, here, at this time. I have friends who have had cosmetic surgery with great results and for good reasons--no judgment, here--an...