#life is too short to hate ourselves ffr

[sillybruja]

you know what ? f u c k a n y b o d y who contributed to this bullshit that aging is some fucking problem. fuck ANYONE who made any of us feel like gray/white hairs, wrinkles, smile lines, acne, etc. are negative things. I DESPISE ANYONE who can genuinely sit there & decide a person is no longer "valuable" because they are aging.

y'know what? congratu-fucking-lations for all the gray hairs growing in your hair, your beards, your chins, your side burns. How PROUD I am of you that you get to have smile lines and forehead creases because that tells me you've had some of the best, funniest, memorable moments of your life.

I am sick of feeling like I need to be ashamed of myself for aging. Of feeling like not only my looks define me, but also being pushed to believe that I cannot offer my think pieces or any value because I'm "getting older".

Some of us do not get to make it to 30.

Some of us didn't even get to make it to 20.

Instead of constantly shaming and trying to twist and turn ourselves into tiny, perfect, lineless and wrinkleless fragments of ourselves, we should be proud that we get to age.

Aging is a privilege. Aging is beautiful. Fuck anybody who says otherwise.