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Current Talk '05 II / Re: Who here has seen the WB pilot?
« on: December 04, 2005, 08:37:41 PM »A few other social thoughts i've had:Â
1) folks are psychologically aging much slower . .e.g. still dressing like a teenagers when their in their middle 40s, haven't found themselves even at 60Â and
2) Everyone smoked back in the DS days which dramatically ages a person (lines around eyes, mouth, overall skin appearance). . . This point occurred to me when i kept wondering. .well, you know. . on DS Grayson Hall is only 6-8 years older than me but she seems older .. And Frid too seems 50ish (not 20ish no matter how many believe). .and then i thought of my own Mother who looks significantly older than her mother and grandmother--and even me at this age. .we all have the same physical and skin types.
On the first thing, it's beside your real point maybe, but it's up to individuals to decide what appearance looks mature to them. It's hardly an objective thing, to be stated as a fact. If people in their forties are "dressing like teenagers", teenagers of the 60s that is, then the standard has shifted, and it's not a teenage appearance any longer. Neil Young probably fits your profile as regards appearance usually, and he's awfully mature. When he wants to be.
I want to say people are getting more and more immature in personality, but maybe it was bad in the 60s too, and as kids we had to frame of reference to tell.
Smoking: my mother quit very late. All my life she looked literally twenty years older than she actually was. She died at 75, and looked 90-something. Her mother lived to 98.