True Beauty

When I grow up, I want to be a beautiful old person. One that has wrinkles and gray hair and has let nature take it's course. Because nature is going to do that anyway. Old people are some of the most beautiful people on the planet. They really are. So much more beautiful than the old people who are still trying to look young. There is something clean and wholesome about a person who has just let age happen. That's what aging gracefully is. And, yes, there are aches, and pains, and things don't work they way they used to, but why should they? Besides, I figure I will have lived a life to earn every wrinkle and gray hair, so why be ashamed of them? Nope. I'm going to be a beautiful old lady.