Aging gracefully...

So, we all now know that i have found a wrinkle on my 25 y/o face.

The thing is, i feel like a 20 y/o. So, i dont want my face to reveal the fact that im older! I mean, with the whole alice band coming back in fashion, once i pop it on the crown of my head i can actually pass as a Uni student...until you see the wrinkle, that is!!!

V's friend last night mentioned "aging gracefully"...I believed that after 30, when gravity really hits a woman's skin and drags it to the ground, that i would take it in stride and live with it gracefully. (Thats one of the reasons why i had planned to die by the time i turned 30! Ha, take that Gravity!!!)

But since im only 25...i feel like my skin has let me down. I mean, I've been going to the gym for years...enhancing blood circulation to the skin...i'm an avid yoga poser...once again enhancing blood circulation...i drink heaps of water!!! Both my parents have good skin. They both look younger than they really are. People mistake my mother for being a 35-40 y/o woman, when in fact she is over 50. So, genetically, you would think i had it in the bag when it comes to possessing youthful looking, non-wrinkled-looking-like-a-road-map skin!
You. Would. Think.

SO, WHAT THE HELL WENT WRONG WITH ME AT 25???

Okay, I think i have said enough.

No. I havent.

I did a quick google search and i realise that there are simple things that i can do now to prevent other road markings from appearing on my face later. A simple change in diet (reduce sugar intake and cut out alcohol!!! So, i guess the cocktail last night didnt help...) and i must stop pulling faces!!! I should also change to a higher SPF strength of sunscreen too.

I told one of the PM's i've been working for that it was all his fault, that i've started to get wrinkles. He asked me how? I told him it was the stress from working on his projects/programme. In particular, that one client! I figured if L could blame that same client for her alcoholism and her eye/face twitches...i am entitled to blaming the stress i feel on them too. I've started drinking more (but not as much as she does), but i would rather eye/face twitches which goes away when the stress goes away - than the wrinkle that i now have which is permanent!!! (Unless i get cosmetic surgery done...but i wont, as i cant afford it!)

His response to my moment of temporary insanity was that i should stop stressing and stop fixating on that wrinkle - and then it will magically go away!

*...cricket noises against a silent background and me thinking "right!"...*

MEN! THEY JUST DONT GET IT!!!

Then he told me to get back to work and produce the reports he needs for tomorrow.

*hmph*

Luckily, we are more like friends than manager and employee. But he must think im nuts and wonders if he will regret one day (20-something years down the track) that his wife had given birth to a beautiful baby girl (6 months ago).

I never thought i would react this way. But then, i never thought i would find wrinkles at 25.

=P