All over Social Media Influencers and other authors are offering us a million easy ways to be our happiest and healthiest and most beautiful selves as we age. But pretending that aging does not take some mental adjusting and some work on our part would be very unrealistic. Throughout our lives we have learned that in general you get out of something what you put into it. This is also true of aging.

As we age, I believe there is a tendency to step back from and ignore the aspects of the current world because it feels so different than the world we were raised in and became the people we are today. We see and hear things we don’t understand and maybe don’t agree with.

As we age, I believe there is a tendency to step back from and ignore the aspects of the current world because it feels so different than the world we were raised in and became the people we are today. We see and hear things we don’t understand and maybe don’t agree with.

Imagine a bouncing ball… the harder you press down on that ball the higher it bounces. It has to hit the ground again to bounce higher each time and so it is when we hit roadblocks in life.

When we are young, we have this wonderful “why” within us!! It is the most natural thing in the world for us to ask why about everything we learn. But then where does it go? Do we reach a certain age where why doesn’t even matter anymore? Where we are so certain of our answers that we no longer question them?

If every image that we see is created and styled to perfection we risk losing the ability to decipher what is pretend and what is real, creating unreasonable expectations for ourselves no matter what our age.