Body Image...

[€uroMeinke]

So more random thoughts from one of the only guys posting here:

Seems physical beauty is often a foot-in-the-door sort of advantage - get's people to look and pay attention. I've certainly heard from a lot of people on the online dating front, that the profile picture was important for them to initiate any contact - or at least accurate physical descriptions.

I think there's also a youth component along with beauty. I know for myself seeing the physical signs of aging on my body has been the more recent source of distress for me. Last week I noticed that the skin on the backs of my hands was looking "old" and that alone made me go sown a path of thinking I was becoming less attractive - or more realistically mortal advancing another day closer to my death. So there are things about me I wonder if there's anything I can do. I mean sure I can lose weight - but those ear hairs that showed up on my 30th birthday are still coming back, grooves are becoming more permanent as my skin loses it's elasticity adn I start to wonder how my skin would hang if I ever did lose the weight I'd hope to.

Getting old sucks and yet it's a path we're all on.