Cathy Classics by Cathy Guisewite for February 15, 2010

She is obsessing again. Cathy run the other way. FAST!

What is wrong with aging, and being proud of the lines and wrinkles that living life has given you? We need to be less obsessed with “eternal youth” and more cognizant of the wealth of wisdom that older people have garnered.

Well said Avolunteer! We need to find a way to get the world to find old age beautiful. I know a lot of beautiful older people.

First off, don’t look in the magnifying mirror. Find the light that is flattering to you and keep your glasses off. Then hang out with people who love you for who you are, not what you look like. If your husband isn’t part of that group, then leave him. Finally, but most importantly, be happy with yourself.

I figured I earned every wrinkle or silver hair I have, I’m going to be proud of them! (And silver sounds so much prettier than gray.)

love you and all of the family

I wish our country were full of Rmoms, lightenups, and Avolunteers- at least our attitudes towards those older than 30. I don’t know where our attitudes came from, but Cathy is a lot more in touch with what I hear and see in society, in huge, icky, painful doses than us idealists here.

That was my first thought Lightenup, there’s a much cheaper solution here: THROW OUT THE MAGNIFYING MAKE-UP MIRROR!! Oh and hang the idiot who came up with THAT idea!

What I think those wrinkles and grey hairs are, like you guys said, a mark of life. Why cover them up? You earned them! And they’re not wrinkles, they’re wisdom and laugh lines! And your hair isn’t going grey, it’s turning silver and isn’t that a precious metal?! You’re just getting wiser and more precious as the years pass! ;)

Whoever thought up that mirror wanted to use it to sell more ‘product’, of course. And he succeeded.

That’s it, fix yourself all up Cathy. Summer is coming and you could snag a new boy toy to replace the loser.