Anti-Aging Creams

I have been on the “Good Housekeeping” website in order to (why??) search for their reviews of point-and-shoot cameras. (I don’t know why I went there to do that.)

As I searched, I kept seeing all these advertisements for “anti-aging” creams. Now I want to know: who was the original marketer of those types of products? Who was the one who coined the phrase “anti-aging cream”?

Then comes my next question: who are the ones that have bought in to such a thing?

Me. My culture. Not that I have ever purchased any of the aforementioned products, but I have never before seen the lie in the phrase.

Anti-aging cream? Really? Yes, yes, I know. It’s against the aging process. It’s trying to ward off the aging process. But guess what? It’s going to happen.

It’s a hopeless case. What you are paying to prevent – what you are “waging war against” is all in vain.

I suppose you couldn’t (and wouldn’t) market your product as the “slowly-aging cream” or the “gracefully-aging cream.” (Maybe I would feel better if that was its name.)

But, I can’t fight off the aging process. If I don’t die before it happens – I know that the affects of aging will overcome me.

Why do we allow ourselves to be tricked? Why do want to be “forever young”? Why do we spend so much time, money, and attention preventing the aging process? It’s going to happen.

I just want to be worthy of my wrinkles.

I know there will come a day when I will pass by a mirror and take a second glance because I can’t believe that the gray, sagging person I see is the person I have become, but why should I fear those days? Why should I build up this anxious need to push those days back with creams and colors?

They may soften my appearance, but it can’t change reality. Sin has come and we wither, decay, grow old, and die.

Of course, don’t believe me yet. Wait until I get there. See what I do when the reality of aging has arrived.

(Just don’t tell me too bluntly that you see the affects of its coming when it does.)

*Disclaimer: I am not against keeping ourselves healthy and “life-ful”. I advocate the use of lotion and staying out of the harmful rays of the sun. I am merely disgusted by the push of the product and the self-focused marketing campaign behind it.*