The middle-aged conspiracy

It seems someone from CNN must have read my blog this week for they have responded with an article of their own that stands as a distinct contrast to my theory on middle age. You can read this article for yourself in "Americans consider 60's middle age". This interesting article shows just how scared everyone is of aging or maybe it just shows how distasteful the whole idea is to most of growing old. Instead of counting our days the ideal seems to be to forget our number of days or at least through cosmetic surgeries pretend our days never happened. Whatever happened to the splendor of gray hair that we read about in Proverbs 16:31? I think about all the stupid mistakes I made up until today, and honestly my deepest desire is to grow beyond them and not make them again. In other words to grow up, mature, or maybe in this case grow old. Paul talked about the longing we have and the groaning we go through for our redemption to be realized. To me growing old is all about finishing the race, not restarting it over and over again with every face lift, botox, and lipo treatment. I do find it ironic that the first twenty years of your life you spend trying to pretend you are older than you really are and then the next forty years you spend trying to pretend you are younger than you really are, and in the end you wind up with sixty years of pretend and only a few years left to live a life of truth.