My tree ring neck

Website design By BotEap.comI’m starting to look like a turkey with a sagging jowls, Nicole admitted sadly as she looked at herself in the mirror. As long as she was honest with herself, she lifted her head to look at her neck and see the ravages of old age on her. Granted, she was only middle age, but the signs were still there.

Website design By BotEap.comMaybe I should start counting the rings around my neck like you would a tree to see how old I am. Nicole took a good look and groaned.

Website design By BotEap.comWhenever she felt bad, she used to go shopping. They called it retail therapy, but now he seemed more like retail torture.

Website design By BotEap.comAll the tops and dresses she tried on this morning didn’t show her well from her chest to the top of her head. She went from store to store to see if she could find an outfit for her nephew’s wedding next month and every outfit she tried on showed her age.

Website design By BotEap.comI remember when I had firm breasts, no jowls, no rings around my neck, no drooping eyelids, no black rings or bags under my eyes, and no need to dye my hair. Now look at me. I’m forty-nine and I look like a hundred and forty-nine.

Website design By BotEap.comNicole exercised every day and only ate healthy foods. Shouldn’t she look much younger after taking such good care of my health? What good is it to starve and ache from exercising every day if I still look old?

Website design By BotEap.comI didn’t need to lose weight, thank God. He still fit the size six he wore in high school. Of course she knew those clothes would look silly on her now. The problem was her hands. There was no way to disguise them.

Website design By BotEap.comNicole recalled a television interview from several years ago. The first shot she saw was this young woman with a wide smile, nice legs, nice figure, dressed in a short skirt walking towards the camera. Her cameraman was brilliant. Throughout the interview, he kept going down her face, which, now in hindsight, must have had a million cosmetic surgeries, down to her hands, which clearly showed her age. Her dress had a high neck so you couldn’t see the rings around her neck, but her hands showed that she was at least sixty years old. And throughout the interview, she kept the camera focused on her smiling, surgically enhanced face and then immediately zoomed in on her parchment-aged hands, back and forth, her face and then her hands.

Website design By BotEap.comTo hell with that. I’m not going to let Mother Nature win this war. I’ll probably look ridiculous in the summer heat, but I’m going to wear a turtleneck dress to the wedding.