Brutkey

Amelia Bellamy-Royds :progress:
@AmeliasBrain@mstdn.ca

Aging sure is a trip, with an often uncertain destination.

I still often get mistaken for much younger than my 43 years, but the white hairs are steadily increasing. As I idly twisted this loose white strand around my fingers, I tried to imagine what I would look like when that colour change is complete.

I'm sure there's an AI app for that somewhere. I'm equally sure that I'd rather wait and hope I have enough time left to find out for real.

David O'Brien
@iamdavidobrien@mastodon.social

Ah, the destination is certainly certain. But the journey, the route, is unmapped.

I have a good decade and a half lead on you. If you wanted any advice, I would offer this:

Life is brief. Love, laugh as much as you can.

As each year passes, you have one fewer fuck to give. Spend them judiciously.

It's OK to be grey. Or gray, as you may say. Change nothing else about your appearance simply because you're a bit older. You will look sensational.

@AmeliasBrain@mstdn.ca

David O'Brien
@iamdavidobrien@mastodon.social

You don't know me from Adam, though we had occasional interactions on twitter back in the day.

You have one of the finest minds it's ever been my privilege to come across. I neither know, nor care, what you look like.

I just want you to do you.

Be your beautiful self.

@AmeliasBrain@mstdn.ca

Amelia Bellamy-Royds :progress:
@AmeliasBrain@mstdn.ca

@iamdavidobrien@mastodon.social Thank you, David, that's lovely. And I don't have a problem with going gray, it's more of a scientific curiosity to watch it. But it is also inevitable that it affects the assumptions people make about you in personal interactions.

Which makes it a particularly interesting effect of online communities like this that we end up getting to know people without knowing what they look like, or with only the occasional reminders of it.