I have always been super vain, diva like and very over the top picky about my appearance.

I can remember as a young teenager trying to figure out how to get rid of the slight wrinkles on my forehead. 

As I grew older the crow’s-feet started to sprout around my eyes. Then my mouth wanted in on the wrinkle game and those nasty creases showed up on my lip line. 

I was disgusted until one day my daughter changed my perspective. She did it with one statement. She said, “Mom, the only reason why you have wrinkles is because you are always smiling.”

Wow. I now look at my crow’s-feet as exclamation points for my joy. My forehead wrinkles the obvious aftermath of an ever inquisitive mind. My lip line wrinkles remind me of my battle and victory over cigarette smoking. The creases between my eyebrows remind me that I may have frowned at my children when they were misbehaving but I did not lash out at them in abuse. 

The wrinkles on your face reveal that you have lived life. It is amusing to me that so many want to erase the signs of a life well lived. They pay loads of money to have skin which looks as if it has never lived.