Looking like a Young or Living like a Young?
by Nisaar Y. Nadiadwala on Tuesday, June 21, 2011 at 3:03am
The fear of aging is among the Worlds Top 20 Worst Phobias. The phobics include, Movie stars. rock singers celebrities and other section of the society. For a celebrity there is no fear like the fear of looking old.
A famous Bollywood star is now in his seventees but he cannot unglue himself with the lime light he has seen in his prime youth when the lights of media chased him, covers of magazines beautified by his looks, actresses dying to work with him... but now since the younger generation has taken over and every time he sees in his wrinkled face in the mirror he is depressed. At times he gets drunk and shuns himself from the world for two days ,locking himself in his bedroom !!!! An over whelming number of actors and actresses undergo the knife of the skin surgeons to hide their age, because their youthful looks are their way to name, fame and wealth..
Hollywood celebrities are probably the most mirror-obsessed, self-pampered people on the earth, and their personal assets are rigorously tended by certified-genius plastic surgeons, throngs of personal trainers, and kitchen staffs headed by famed French chefs consulting with Harvard-trained nutritionists. So the phenomenon may be no more than a skin-deep illusion.
In its lists of centenarians by profession, Wikipedia names more than 50 actors, compared with 18 medical professionals, 9 philosophers and theologians, and 9 explorers.It describes how they continued working like youth even after crossing 70s.
Our Prophet (pbuh) participated in war when he was reaching sixty. Abu Ayub Ansari r.a. thenoted companon of the Prophet (pbuh) participated in the war against Constantinopole when he was 80.
Dr. Bilal Philips in spite crossing his 60 looks like a young athlete. Hussein Yee has clean cut muscles like Jackie Chan a he too works out in the gym thoughhe is reachign 60. Ahmed Deedat worked out in gym with dumbells at that age of 68! His best debates took place in his late fiftees and early sixtees, when he stormed like a hurricane uprooting and knocking out high fi MIssionaries like Jimmy Swaggert and others. My ex Editor Kanti Bhatt is 80 and he still reads hundred pages of a book, and writes an editorial three times longer than what I write.. and he is still the highest paid writer in the Gujrati media !
If you have a mission in your life then age should never be looked as an obstacle or excuse. None of the above mentioend people depended upon the cosmetics surgery or cosmetics to hide their age but their performance outshone young people.
Compare it with the fast growing junk food generation who get on the peak of their career in their teens and fade out before they reach thirty !!!Their short journey to fame and game gives them an early exit. Some fall to drugs, some chase girls and drown themselves in wine and the rest just dream of becoming like them......
Once you are out of the womb of your mother, then nothing can stop you from aging....no matter how many cosmetics you apply ..Your aging does not stop even if you stop counting your age.... After all it is not important how long you live but How good you lived that matters most. Will the people bear witness thatt you were good, while walking along with your janazah ? Will the angels of death welcome you ?
A famous Bollywood star is now in his seventees but he cannot unglue himself with the lime light he has seen in his prime youth when the lights of media chased him, covers of magazines beautified by his looks, actresses dying to work with him... but now since the younger generation has taken over and every time he sees in his wrinkled face in the mirror he is depressed. At times he gets drunk and shuns himself from the world for two days ,locking himself in his bedroom !!!! An over whelming number of actors and actresses undergo the knife of the skin surgeons to hide their age, because their youthful looks are their way to name, fame and wealth..
Hollywood celebrities are probably the most mirror-obsessed, self-pampered people on the earth, and their personal assets are rigorously tended by certified-genius plastic surgeons, throngs of personal trainers, and kitchen staffs headed by famed French chefs consulting with Harvard-trained nutritionists. So the phenomenon may be no more than a skin-deep illusion.
In its lists of centenarians by profession, Wikipedia names more than 50 actors, compared with 18 medical professionals, 9 philosophers and theologians, and 9 explorers.It describes how they continued working like youth even after crossing 70s.
Our Prophet (pbuh) participated in war when he was reaching sixty. Abu Ayub Ansari r.a. thenoted companon of the Prophet (pbuh) participated in the war against Constantinopole when he was 80.
Dr. Bilal Philips in spite crossing his 60 looks like a young athlete. Hussein Yee has clean cut muscles like Jackie Chan a he too works out in the gym thoughhe is reachign 60. Ahmed Deedat worked out in gym with dumbells at that age of 68! His best debates took place in his late fiftees and early sixtees, when he stormed like a hurricane uprooting and knocking out high fi MIssionaries like Jimmy Swaggert and others. My ex Editor Kanti Bhatt is 80 and he still reads hundred pages of a book, and writes an editorial three times longer than what I write.. and he is still the highest paid writer in the Gujrati media !
If you have a mission in your life then age should never be looked as an obstacle or excuse. None of the above mentioend people depended upon the cosmetics surgery or cosmetics to hide their age but their performance outshone young people.
Compare it with the fast growing junk food generation who get on the peak of their career in their teens and fade out before they reach thirty !!!Their short journey to fame and game gives them an early exit. Some fall to drugs, some chase girls and drown themselves in wine and the rest just dream of becoming like them......
Once you are out of the womb of your mother, then nothing can stop you from aging....no matter how many cosmetics you apply ..Your aging does not stop even if you stop counting your age.... After all it is not important how long you live but How good you lived that matters most. Will the people bear witness thatt you were good, while walking along with your janazah ? Will the angels of death welcome you ?
Author : Nisaar Nadiadwala speaks and writes on socio-religous topics from Islamic perspective. He can be reached at nisaar_yusuf@yahoo.com
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