Trying to tune out all of those anti-aging adds

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Stop it! 
You advertisers are all around me selling products to take away wrinkles, get rid of crepe-like skin, add more youth and take away tired. You’re on my TV, in the few magazines I read to relax and unwind, and all over my social media pages. Maybe you were always there. It’s just now you’re hitting my buttons. Is this like when you are trying to get pregnant and all you see are pregnant women? 
I am bound and determined to not get sucked in. What REALLY works? And, wait a second. I earned this wrinkles! By laughing - a lot. And thinking, and listening, and learning and OK, yes, squinting in the sun. I’ve been really good to my skin. This is natural aging and I guess I thought that the crepe skin wouldn’t happen to me because I’ve moisturized my whole life. Dang. Nature. It happens. Fight it or embrace it? 
I’m doing a little of both - with smiles and …. my moisturizer. 

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