Oh to be young again

[Superquints]

I’m late 30s and feeling pretty grim.
Youth is truly wasted on the young!
Glowy complexion, taut skin, thick healthy hair.
All things of the past now!
Spend a lot of time hoping I look younger than I do and then getting a horrible shock every time I see myself!

Same 😢

Take a photo and get back to us in 15 years.

I know. I'm a lot older than you and often feel like this.

However I also tell myself that getting old is something we all want (the alternative being dreadful) and is a privilege, so we need to embrace it, make the most of ourselves and just go with it.

Oh wait till you are 50.

Lol ask any older women - oh to be in my 30’s again....

You ARE young. Embrace it, my friend.

Oh flipping heck - 30 isn't old 😂

I can't imagine how you're going to feel in twenty years time when you're in your late 50s, like me.

OP I feel you I'm 39 think much the same. I've resorted to Botox and expensive skin routine to try and make me feel better.

I feel there is more pressure than ever for women in western society to stay looking young. With the rise of social media, influencers and expensive treatments for the rich, there is an ideal that is simply unattainable for most of us. There is too much value on beauty and youth in our society/culture and I doubt that will ever change.

I get that it must be hard to see once-lovely looks fading but the number of stop-men-in-their-tracks in teens and twenties Mumsnetters who apparently go on to be ordinary 30 and 40 year olds are disproportionate!

For my part I have always been pretty ordinary.

Yeah I’ve always been ordinary too but now I look ordinary and old!