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Aunty... what the.....?

I was brought back to reality sometime ago, when a sales girl at a departmental store had the nerve to call me 'aunty’-a salutation my nieces scoff at, considering they think that I’m the same age as them! Ignoring her (with the hope that she was addressing somebody else) I went about stacking up the grocery cart meekly adding anti-aging lotion to the list, paid the bill and got out of there as fast as my short legs could.

On reaching home immensely irritated and feeling sorry for myself slapped on the lotion and let artificiality take over. Frankly, I don’t believe in all these creams and lotions but was drawn into this vortex of “bought” youth. A week goes by… I peer at the mirror and notice that I’m beginning to look a tad fairer if you may but nothing earth shattering! I then slap on more gunk …. and wait…and wait… and wait…

Day 30 Nah nothing! I then decide that the product that I have been using has too many chemicals and jump on the herbal bandwagon, go vegetarian, buy a treadmill (can shed some flab here as well), join a health club, anything that promises everything. I feel good I reassure myself, but hey there is a new size zero, not where it matters, but in the bank account!

What the…!

After a couple of weeks it finally dawns on me that the person starting back at me in the mirror ain’t no college kid, nothing can bring that back. Been there done that! No cream, Botox, anything else for that matter can turn back time - gravity has its charms! Anyways, age is a state of the mind and being eternally 21(uh uh) is the USP!
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