What's wrong with wrinkles?

Have you ever seen the show "10 Years Younger"?? They take a person who looks much older than they actually are, and give them a total makeover so they look a little younger than their natural age. The first part of the process is to stand in a glass sound proof box in a public place while the host of the show polls 100 people to get an average guess of the person's age. After this humiliation they sit them down, show them some of the footage of people criticizing how they look, and wait for the tears to come. Once they've broken them down they tell them all the things they'll do to erase 10 years in 10 days. This poor guy on there now is 48, and was told he looks 56. Part of the reason people guessed such an older age was because he had poor teeth and some "fine" wrinkles. Are these people serious?
I'm not saying that after these makeovers people don't experience a more quality life- that may be true. My problem is our obesession with the outward condition of our bodies. Most people are not only concerned with their own body, but with other's bodies as well. Who are we to say that a decaying body isn't beautiful? In truth, we are all decaying from the moment we're born.

Millions of dollars are spent each year to pursue the fantasy of eternal youth. Where do we draw the line between being healthy by taking care of our bodies and living for this body? What happened to the days when wrinkles were charming? Why have we forced our elders to be concerned with hair dye-- do they not have more important matters to contemplate? Worse still are the young children and adolescents bombarded with messages that the sooner they consume themselves with their degree of attractiveness to others the better their life will be.

I am guilty of putting too much emphasis on outward appearances, and in part have contributed to the rise of the health & beauty industry. Where is the balance? There must be a way to live accepting the condition that our bodies are subject to on this earth while still living healthy.

At the end of each episode of this show they put the person back in the glass box and poll another 100 people. They always guess much lower than their actual age. Yay, they were able to make them look younger. The sad part is that the show thinks the best part is when they reveal their new look to their loved ones-- as in all makeover shows-- the loved ones jump for joy overwhelmed with excitment that their friend, father, mother, sister looks so much better! It seems like it would build that person up, but how many of these people keep up these looks after the show? How many of them creep back into their old ways and then have even deeper hurt knowing everyone that cares about them prefers the "better" version of them?

I can say this for certain,
I love your imperfections. I love the aging of your body. I love your wrinkles. We're getting closer to Heaven, and all of these things are just sweet reminders of that fact.