Word is going around these parts about a way to lower your cholesterol, lower your blood pressure, increase circulation and make you feel 10 years younger.
The solution is: Stop watching the Red Sox play baseball.
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| 'New' look |
But, in more practical terms, I’m addressing the cholesterol situation with Pravastatin and the blood pressure situation with Lisinopril.
And, in order to look 10 years younger, I shaved my moustache and beard.
The dual demons of age and vanity have been sitting on my shoulders as we turn the corner toward summer and as I prepare to marry off my daughter Elizabeth at the end of summer.
I celebrate my 59th birthday in June, and I’ll be into my 60th year when I walk Elizabeth down the aisle.
I just don’t want to look like I’m in my 60th year. As I told her, I want to be seen as a younger father of the bride, not an older father of the bride.
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| 'Old' look |
It’s not like I’ve had the facial ornamentation for very long.
It started in August 2008 right after my stepdaughter Kelsey married Jeremy.
I was newly retired from a long-time job, and I was looking for new opportunities as a consultant or freelance writer/editor. The beard made me look wise … or at least wiser than I actually am.
Kelsey and Jeremy now have a daughter -- Rylin Anne -- and the salt-’n-pepper moustache and the all-gray beard certainly gave me the look of a grandpa.
But as I creep closer to my daughter’s wedding, I’m thinking a change of scenery is necessary. And it’s all about me and my vanity, how I want to look and feel about myself.
It’s a funny thing about us Baby Boomers: We want the respect that should come with age, but we don’t really want the look of age.
So we boxtox, lipo and color our hair.
But I won’t botox my jowls. I won’t lipo my gut. I won’t color my gray.
I’ll try to eat right. I’ll sweat my butt off at the gym. And I’ll shave off as much of the offending gray as I can.
On Sept. 1, I’ll see if I can make 59 look like the new 39 … okay, okay … maybe 49.
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