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Turning 40, 50 or 60: Is it okay to admit that aging might not always be a joyride?
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This is exactly what Nora Ephron exposes in her new book “I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman”. This is definitely a book that you have to read with a touch of humour, but you’ll quickly realize there is also a lot of sadness in Nora’s accounts of the many changes that come with age.
It’s become very trendy to focus on the positive aspects of aging and since we are living in a new millennium and the Baby Boomers who precede my generation have opened the floodgates to cosmetic rejuvenation (no one needs to know your real age, after all) … does anyone see aging as a negative these days? Perhaps, few of us might admit in public that some days, we’re just not able to see the joys of aging, but that doesn’t mean we’re not having that conversation with ourselves.
Nora Ephron has taken that one-on-one conversation you might be having with yourself and she put it on paper. Some passages are so accurate that you’re not sure if you should laugh or cry. According to Nora Ephron, aging is one big descent. I cannot yet speak from experience, but I must say this did take me aback. Ephron vividly explains the steady spiralling down of everything: body and mind, breasts and balls (as in courage), dragging one’s self-respect behind them. Ephron’s philosophy is simple: nothing, in the end, prevents the descent … not surgery, not injections and surely not the drugs of denial.
Ephron also highlights the exorbitant cost of hair maintenance … styling, dying, highlighting, blow-drying is very expensive over the years. She also talks about not being able to wear a bikini anymore, not being able to read pill bottles and not being able to remember her thoughts.
Nora Ephron concludes blatantly that “it’s sad to be over sixty”.
“I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman” is a collection of 15 short essays in 160 pages, which is supposed to be taken as a light read, but the subject matter is anything but light.
What do you think of Nora Ephron’s approach to aging?
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Posted by Beauty Match on February 9, 2008 | Permalink
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