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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Birch Dragon" data-source="post: 548664" data-attributes="member: 40922">It's only vanity in a culture that values looking young. I blame boy bands.Myself, I have to admit I still see my seemingly eternal youthful look as a blessing and wouldn't want to give it up. But it's worked for me a lot less since I moved into the adult work world. As a professor I'm supposed to convey some kind of authority when I step into a class room. Both the students and the staff I'm surrounded by have spend lifetimes absorbing  cultural standards that say intellectual authority is supposed to look aged, or, at least weedy and nerdy.I look like neither. I have to radically alter my identity, keeping a beard and a tie every day, to distinguish myself from the students.Virgo rising with Aries sun/moon/Venus. Peter Pan.But then, my whole family looks young, and I think I'm the only one with Virgo rising...</blockquote>