Thirdteenth
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Wowzers...that is such a beautiful poem.
People act like aging is the worst thing that can happen LOL
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Wowzers...that is such a beautiful poem.
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Ukpoohbear
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Yes it is beautiful and enigmatic. I personally prefer the other poem for its more straightforward language but this poem has a lovely poetic and imaginary concept: seeing things from the perspective of a mirror.
It kinda reminds me of a teenager book I read, one of those Goosebumps style books. It was about a mirror where the character made a deal with it for secret powers like beauty and popularity in return for become a mirror and allowing the mirror to become her but it eventually started to take over her life.
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Ukpoohbear
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I think the other poem describes nicely what it must be like to age physically but still feel young inside. I imagine that’s how it feels for everyone who ages. Youthful people don’t get it and we think if they look old, they also feel old and we distance ourselves from them.
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Thirdteenth
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I wonder what that mirror felt being a teenage girl all day? Did it adopt all of her problems, insecurities and boy troubles too? Or was it like a spirit attached to the mirror that jumped into the girl’s body? Goosebumps was such a strange show 
Thirdteenth
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That for sure is not how everyone will react when they age. Maybe for a few but everyone? Nah...those who are uncomfortable with the idea of aging will feel similar to what the above poem described. A man so uncomfortable in their own skin that they almost dissociate with themselves.
Dirius
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I think that as people get older, they realize that life isn't what they hoped it be, and try to regain some of the time lost.
You are young bunraku, you'll understand when you turn 30. I don't disagree with your point, but its normal for some people to feel unhappy. People just put to much expectation on life.
Also, a healthy diet and excersice works much better than botox or plastic surgery in any case, and its cheaper. I know people in their 40's and close to their 50's who look much younger, due to a healthy lifestyle.
You are young bunraku, you'll understand when you turn 30. I don't disagree with your point, but its normal for some people to feel unhappy. People just put to much expectation on life.
Also, a healthy diet and excersice works much better than botox or plastic surgery in any case, and its cheaper. I know people in their 40's and close to their 50's who look much younger, due to a healthy lifestyle.
Ukpoohbear
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I wonder what that mirror felt being a teenage girl all day? Did it adopt all of her problems, insecurities and boy troubles too? Or was it like a spirit attached to the mirror that jumped into the girl’s body? Goosebumps was such a strange show
The mirror was a spiritual, non-human entity, like a genie, and didn’t adopt the usual human insecurities and was able to get further with the boy the girl liked, which she appreciated at first, until she felt more and more left out while being a mirror.
Ukpoohbear
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It is likely a mix between feeling ignored by age and feeling released from having to live up to an ideal. But when I thought of being old, I was imagining being in your 80s etc. Surely by jay age you will feel more and more ignored and left out, even in pain through illness or atharitis and faced with questions about your own mortality.
But yes, as Elena pointed out too, it’s also a blessing to grow old.
One thing I would like about being old is being the last one standing when it comes to my enemies
CapAquaPis
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We're living longer and aging slower than previous generations before us, we should not feel bad about getting older. This is an Aquarian age phenomenon with the essence of the planet of aging and wisdom: Saturn (Capricorn ruler). And it's not about you never ask a woman her age, you learned in life that age is just a number.
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Thirdteenth
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If we just reincarnate to the next life in a different form then why have any worry about aging? We might as well see it as an exciting experience rather than a sad, and lonely transition. Think about the new and improve body you’ll have in your new life
Ukpoohbear
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Marilyn Monroe’s career was in decline by the ‘60’s and she probably would have probably faded into oblivion if she had not have died young. With her NN in 12th house Cancer, I like to think, had she lived, she would have totally transformed into a different person but perhaps, that astrological signature also implies her early death, which was another type of oblivion.
Bunraku
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Uhh expectations such as what?
Bunraku
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The mirror watches you while you shower
See? We all deserve someone who thinks that we’re THAT sexy
Bunraku
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I don’t like her at all. She became a symbol for Karens with major attitude issues.
“If you can’t handle me at my worst you don’t deserve me at my best” type beotches
Ukpoohbear
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I’ve seen that quote used against her before. She was a flawed human who tried to justify her unreasonable behaviour due to being a manic depressive skitzophrenic in an era where mental illness was still largely misunderstood and shunned. She worked her *** off to and sold her soul to Hollywood and the public because she had nothing else to live for.
Next you gonna say you don’t like Britney
and the world will end immediately.
Bunraku
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I mean it’s tragic that she died but as a result people made her a legend not by merit but through their own sense of mystery, victimhood, and objectification. The views on her are gross, and the discussions always end up as if it was like a voyeuristic view into her life.
Was she that good of an actress? I don’t really think so.
Was she that good of an actress? I don’t really think so.