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Summer is fast approaching and we have my wife's nephew's wedding to attend and, since this is the first wedding in a few years, it means that a new dress is needed. But, this always comes with a problem, because my wife is short and petite, and they generally don't make or stock dresses in her size, especially long, formal dresses.  

The other problem is that "her size" has changed over the years, even though she is the same size. Vanity sizing has seen "size creep" where as the average size of the population increases, they have relabeled clothing so that people feel that they still fit into what they did a decade ago. The "xs" size that used to fit, is now like her wearing a bag and the "34" that fit 80% of the time, now is far too large. 

*Vanity sizing...* 

How easily we are fooled.

>This has happened in men's clothing too. 

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Speaking of expanding waistlines....

For dinner tonight we ended up having waffles and while my wife hasn't changed much over the years, I think that I need to head off to the gym a little bit more than zero times a week to get into some kind of shape. I just cant seem to find the time or *motivation to find the time.*

>What's with that?

I don't feel great or look great and I know I should be doing more, so why is it so hard to actually do more, or eat better for that matter? It definitely seems like a highly flawed design when our body is made to degrade its own performance by choice. 

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I feel a bit like my daughter looked as she tried to hid herself away from the sun shining in her eyes. I am pretty sure that most of the Sundays of my twenties were spent looking very similar. 

>A few in years of my thirties too.

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But a young family we are not and it was funny to hear my wife say that she remembers when her parents turned 50 twenty five years ago and she felt embarrassed because they were *so old.* I will be a few years over 50 when my daughter is the age she was and my wife will be on the nose. 

>Lol. 

Childhood silliness comes back to bite and I am *sure* that our daughter will feel like her mother did, embarrassed to have such old parents. Though, it is probably going to be more common in the future, since so many people are waiting until later to have kids these days, or not having them at all, as the case may be.

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I do wish that I had children earlier than we did - but it just wasn't on the cards earlier or at least, not acceptably. Being an older parent has some advantages too I guess, but I think there are more disadvantages than positives, especially in the case of energy and general health. It can be a pretty rapid downward slope after 40 and unless actively fighting against it, it is easy to one day wake up and realize, there is not much more to be done and it becomes more of a salvage operation, in the hope that there is still something useful to be saved. 

One thing I wish younger people would realize is that while they needn't be obsessive, they really should look after themselves better under the assumption that they are going to live longer than they are prepared for, financially and physically. 

Culture is working against us however, as it is just "so easy" to avoid doing what is right for our bodies, minds and emotions and instead, follow the crowd - fitting into the one size fits all world we have created. We can hide away, edit out blemishes and feel that we have remained unchanged through the many vanity filters that stop us seeing the reality of what we are becoming.

What we see is no longer what we get.
*And we happy to have it that way, rather than facing the truth.*

An invanity check.

Taraz
[ Gen1: Hive ]


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