Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Immortality

One of Albert Mohler's programs took up the subject of aesthetic surgery. The sore spot for women, who, as the years go by, lose the looks and attraction, and seek the ways of reverting the process. A new fad in the business was mentioned on air, namely, hand lifting.
Well, we know that hands tell your age even if your face and your neck does not, right? So what the surgeons have started doing is to transplant the fat tissue from other regions of the body into the hands, thus making them look younger almost immediately. The procedure is safe and easy, they say.

Whatever.

That brought some thoughts in my female head, some of them I want to share with whoever wants to listen.
I was one of these terrified women, chasing after eternal youth, scared to death when I spotted first grey hair, first wrinkle, first signs of the age. I was playing with the thought of having some lifting procedure done in the future, and researching the field in order to find one that would be lasting and good. There are several possibilities, and it is not so straightforward to choose one without considering the other options.

But then God saved me.

So how do I look at it now, with my new eyes and new life?
Well, if you only have this one earthly life, it is quite understandable that you want to preserve your best features for as long as possible. What has a woman got left when her youth is gone? In this material world - not much. In this material world, governed by money and sex, old people are barely tolerated.
So women do all sorts of things - I do not have to list them here.

Ancient Egypt, pyramids and pharaohs - that is what comes to my mind when I think about it. Living mummies, preserving their looks, for the sake of superficiality. It is enough to look at some of the less fortunate victims of plastic surgeons to understand what I mean. They have made themselves look terrible, to say the least.
Why? Are they so scared of death, dying, scared to death by death, that they keep on deceiving themselves like that? They are liars and enemies of truth, and the price to pay will be high. Unless God opens their hearts.

Gory thoughts - how do you deal with the dead bodies of those "aestheticised" ladies? Filled with silicone, artificial tissues, rods? How do you cremate them and not harm the environment?
Will there be a need for removing certain things from the bodies before the cremation? Who is going to do it?
On the funny side - modern car companies have to recycle their products. Will the surgeons be expected to "recycle" the bodies of their late patients?

1 comment:

Sista Cala said...

Growing old gracefully is best done when a person realizes the Grace that lives w/in them is what is most important, and He is beautiful.