Geezer Issue One Year Later: Oh, the Wrinkles You'll Get!

Oh! The places you'll go! There is fun to be done! There are points to be scored! There are wrinkles to be won!

Wrinkles. A craggy nemesis completely noticed. In the now-vogue rush to capture eternal youth, where do wrinkles stand today? Should we taut them for professional appeal? Inject them into oblivion for celebrity status? Should we keep them for distinction? Deepen them with our various lifestyles?

Wrinkles, Amanda Fortini says, are something people now have a choice to keep or erase. And to me, there is nothing more exciting than the freedom of choice! Not only do I have options to choose when I physically age, but I can choose how I age and what I age into. My gender, skin color, and, FINALLY! facial features are mine to control! But what, then, does that do to the idea of aging?

When the physical process of aging can be changed, age becomes a sort of taboo. Do you ask him if he has ID for that alcohol? Are those his children or his grandchildren? Is she really 55 or is she lying to get the senior discount price? With the option to change your physical age, it becomes so much harder to trust things at face value. Here it is, case in point, that nothing may be as it seems.

People aren't transparent enough as it is. These cosmetic procedures make interaction even less sure. Wrinkles are something won from a lifestyle, and this vogue concept of eternal youth makes it harder to find out who a person really is. Personalities are usually mapped out on the face! I think that the choice of aging is a depersonalizing one.