Cold Case Moments

 This was partially inspired by rival blogger, Maggie. I don't know if she is my muse or if I'm hers sometimes. 🤷 Today she wrote about growing older. Mostly though it was inspired by a video I saw a few nights ago showing high school pics of beautiful actresses. Having an eye for the ladies, I had to figure I would ace it, like Trump picking out critters. Well, of course I failed miserably. It was tough! Except for Marisa Tomei (whom I always thought I had a chance with...) the contemporaneous beauties were rather plain back in their teen years. This is not to suggest that they had work done. Not at all. Many of us girls and boys grow into our selves a little later than some others do. That's just facts. It was also inspired by a long ago YouTube I saw of what porn actresses looked like off camera. It was quite shocking even though I had not had carnal knowledge of these actresses, so I did not know their names or the body of their work. They were remarkably plain looking compared to their work headshots. No pun intended there. This is also inspired by the remembrance of younger me seeing Patti, a hostess at the restaurant we worked at, and thinking she was sick. She really looked like something the cat dragged in. I asked some waitresses if Patti was sick. They laughed! "No", one said, "it's her day off. She doesn't wear makeup on her day off!" We were the same age; about 23... To be so young and already a slave to makeup was quite a shock to me. 

So, now that the legal disclaimer is out of the way and Maggie can't sue me for blog theft or trademark infringement, let's get on with today's post. 

Like many people still on Facebook, I am a human being. If a name from the past pops into my head, I often get on FB and see if I can find them and see what they're up to these days. I'll look for old girlfriends and crushes just out of curiosity.  No judgement. These people are as old as I am or were in my wheelhouse, then and now. Everybody got old. I see current photos of them and I'm pretty sure if I saw them on the street in passing, I wouldn't recognize them. I go through life thinking I'm unremarkable and that they wouldn't recognize me either. I'm not going to disparage anyone's appearance, because I have a mirror and a Medicare card. I understand aging. I've had a few of those "Cold Case" moments where you see someone 30-40 years later and your mind goes immediately back in time when you were both as young and pretty as you were. I wonder how many I've missed! Looking at old flames now on FB, I'd have to say that if I saw them out of the context of, say, a reunion- out on the street- I'd walk on by. Maybe they would too. Maybe most of us would as well. 

We are more than our current photos. Nor are we our past glories either. We are the sum of both though, and all the time and wear and tear in between. Growing old isn't for sissies. Acceptance isn't really for the bold. It's for the still beautiful in their hearts and souls. That is a pretty picture of a life at anytime.  


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