Philosophic considerations about senility

Abstract

Aging is a normal phenomenon that afflicts mankind since the early ages. Various types of adornments and cosmetics have long been used to conceal, camouflage, or disguise the unwelcome signs of old age such as wrinkles and sagging skin, white hair, and baldness. All of those are in the vain attempt to prevent the dream of youth from becoming the nightmare of senectitude. Young people are eager for new knowledge and more experience, what is acquired as they mature. So far, their vitality and optimism enthusiastically stimulate them in the struggle for life that seems eternal. As time gradually goes by, it's perceived that the pillars of maturity culminate in the roof of old age, meaning that death lurks everyone in some depths of time, and, inexorably, we will meet it. Nowadays several social movements inspired the powerful advertising agencies to use the feminist propaganda, such as the contraceptive pills proposition and cosmiatry. It bias media and commerce through out the technological development and created a youth and beauty exaltation time: young fashion, young music, modernity; and above all, young and beautiful appearance, overvalued and practically unsurpassed. It is up to us, all those who embrace this noble specialty, to exercise continuously and seriously the competence, love, and responsibility that have already become traditional in Brazil.