Anti-aging is a Lie
We’re aging, no matter what they say or do
You’re aging. Right now, as your eyes scan these words, your cells are aging. And you know what? There’s absolutely nothing wrong with that.
When I saw Pamela Anderson, at 56, appear without makeup at Paris Fashion Week, I felt a mix of admiration and relief. Finally, someone brave enough to show that the emperor is naked — or rather, that the empress is genuinely aging. And isn’t this exactly what should happen?
The beauty industry has built a multi-billion-dollar empire based on an absurd paradox: selling us the illusion that we can stop time.
We spend fortunes on “miracle” creams that promise to reverse the irreversible, while ignoring the psychological violence we inflict on ourselves in this impossible pursuit.
When did we decide that wrinkles are enemies? What historical moment determined that natural signs of a life lived should be fought as if they were a terminal illness? Our obsession with anti-aging isn’t just futile — it’s deeply toxic.
Brands sell us “solutions” to a problem they created themselves. It’s brilliant from a marketing…
