Does worrying about appearance matter when you get old?
By masmasika
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When you are very young you don’t care about how you look. You just enjoy life to the fullest that you never mind how you look. You don’t even go to the mirror and look at yourself until mother scolds you and tells you, “Look at yourself in the mirror.” That is the only time that you will know that perhaps you look messy or weird in your outfit.
When you reach puberty, this is the age when you don’t know where you belong and you get confused. The age of puberty is the age when you get fickle minded that sometimes you want to look beautiful in the eyes of other people especially to the opposite sex but sometimes you don’t mind how you look. You go to a series of confusing thoughts that makes you more fickle than normal. You become too aware of how people will judge you and your thoughts will be interwoven with the “what ifs” and you could never decide whether to make yourself beautiful or you just leave everything as they are.
When you become an adult you care so much about how you look because this is the time when you already have a career to take care of and you start to have a life of your own. To others they want to look good to increase their appeal to the opposite sex, while others make themselves beautiful in order to help boost their career. They know that personality is a very vital factor in being successful. Women and men want to look good in the eyes of people because it is sometimes a way of gaining respect from other people. If you look good, people will look up to you.
When you get older, things sometimes change. Some people stop caring about their appearance as they get older. This is true if the person has already married the person he/she loves. To some people, they want to look good because they want to attract the opposite sex but once they get married they stop caring about their appearance.
Let’s look at why people stop caring about their appearance as they get older:
Too busy to care
As a person gets older he has more things shouldered him and he does not care anymore how he looks. He only cares about earning money for his family and savings for old age.
They think they are too old to bother
Older people often think that they are already too old to be wasting time and money making them selves beautiful when they can save the money for other more important things.
They think they don’t need it
As a person gets older, the thought of caring about appearance is already unimportant. Older people have more important things in their mind and they think they don’t need anymore to waste time and money making them selves beautiful.
They are content with their life
As a person gets older, contentment is already achieved and the need to look good is not anymore included in their dreams.
Except for a few, older people stop caring about their appearance because they don’t need it anymore to boost their career, to build a stronger appeal and to attract people.
But should this be the attitude of people who are getting old?
The big question is that, should people neglect or forget about how they look when they get older?
NO. As people get older, they seem to have that feeling of getting old syndrome which gives them the feeling of insecurity and low self-esteem. Sometimes they neglect their appearance. Why is this? People think that they cannot be as vibrant as they were when they were younger and they are giving way for the younger people who deserve to be recognized. This seems inappropriate because even as you grow older if you know how to take care of yourself and want to enjoy life more, you have to always care about how you look?
Do you know that people feel better when they look good?
YES. People feel more confident and have stronger self-esteem if they look great and they are respected more for looking great even while they are getting old. I usually hear people talk about old people who are beautiful even if they are in their 60s or 70s or 80s. They talk about them with pride and they idolize people who care about their appearance even if they are old.
There is no age limit where appearance is concerned. The more you should care about how you look as you grow older in order to feel good and enjoy your life. Feeling good is feeling better and feeling better is enjoying life.Our appearance helps a lot in the way we live our lives. We should always make sure that we look good even while we are getting old. Great looks always pays.
Comments
Awesome hub..well written. Regardless of what we think, society is more willing to accept us if we look good. It's like going to a job interview, you are taken more seriously if you dress up vs down and could be a reflection ( in the interviewer's eyes) of your work ethics. I am retired, you never know who you will meet..BUT..I dress for the occasion....
Hi, douche, you don't have to look good to care. In all fairness, even the person who considers himself the ugliest human being has the right to feel good. it is the way you look at yourself that counts and the way you handle yourself. No matter how you look, the important thing is in how you gauge yourself and make things look good so that you will feel better and most of all feel happier in life. thanks for voicing your opinion.
Trying to 'look good' when you are ugly is ineffective and pathetic. You might as well kill yourself, society has no use for you, because you are unattractive and can't proliferate the continuation of this species of animals who have to have something to look at during copulation that has symmetry and grace in it's features. It's extraordinarily gay and we should all commit suicide out of respect for the faceless and the pointlessness of the human race and condition.
What about inherently ugly people? And old peoples ' bodies degenerate making maintainance of looks impossible. You can look as optimal as possible, but you'll still wrinkle and sag, and eventually it will be like polishing a turd. If you were ugly at birth, you're pretty much fucked in respect to looking good. Unless it's just a nose job, there's not much you can do besides getting a new skeleton and stretching new fresh, clear, acne-free skin over it.
Just found this hub and I absolutely agree 100%. I feel good about myself when I take the time to dress well. I guess its just part of who I am. I have a sister who doesn't care how she dresses or looks and if that makes her happy, so be it. The thing is - she is seldom happy.
Thanks masmasika for another wonderful hub and reminder for us all.
Hi, everybody. You all made your points and commented excellently on my hub. Thanks.
Very good article. I'm guilty of this, for sure. I dress to be comfortable. My daughter calls it frumpy. I do have tailored classic suits in my closet, but they are no longer comfortable. So there's another reason we oldsters might seem not to care about the way we look. (And then there's because we really don't care.)
You've made some good points and I need to smarten up.
I think it matters !!! I would want to hide myself if I don't look good, especially when I bump into old friends and relatives. Yucks !!! Say what you like, people do gauge another person's well being by how that person look. Look good means your life has been well.
Agree with you, masmasika, but how difficult it is - to look good... :)
Hi, fastfreta and shalini kagal. This such a good morning wake up for me. Both of you have sighted good points and thank you.
masmasika - I agree with you - when you look good, somehow you just feel so much better, so much more confident. Just a little care can work wonders for one's self-esteem!
masmasika, you made some very interesting points. Getting older should not mean that you care less about your appearance, to the converse, you probably should care more, because as you said you feel better if you look good. Very good hub.
bingskee, you are doing the right thing and you should do it even if you get old.
sbrown1703, thanks for your comment, you are right in saying that it is how you carry yourself that matters but it helps to care about how one looks. Thanks to both of you.
bingskee, you are doing the right thing and you should do it even if you get old.
sbrown1703, thanks for your comment, you are right in saying that it is how you carry yourself that matters but it helps to care about how one looks. Thanks to both of you.
I'm Gonna Say this Fixing yourself up and having confidence in yourself wether you older or not its all about how you carry yourself to make yourself feel great
in answer to your question, it does. right now, i am trying to focus my mind into good grooming and working to look good, if not that beautiful. i just hope that this mindset will remain until i grow old.
Yes, you said it right, Stan. This is the reason why we should always look good.
The way you look, reflect your personality
Hi, Andromida. You said it right. It always feels good to look great no matter what age you are. Thanks.
Excellent hub.I also believe that looking good feeling make people more confident no matter how old he or she is.
masmasika 2 months ago
Thank you kj force. You are right people usually look first at the physical appearance of a person. I remember one friend who said she was not entertained by the security guard of the bank because she was carrying a market bag and dressed only for the market. The next day she put on light make up and dressed properly and when she returned to the bank the bank personnel even volunteered to fill up the form she needed. That is i guess what life is all about.