What is it about those golden years that makes everyone older try and stay that desired age forever? In our society we can find countless examples of the older generations trying desperately to hang on to their youth. It has almost become too extreme the lengths that both women and men are taking to feel and look younger. It has even become a rude question to ask an older person what their age is so that society will not judge them as being "over the hill." In today's day and age we put so much glamour and prestige into being young that it has become completely undesirable to be considered as old, not to mention that you become a member of the out-group.

A very good example of these extremes that we can examine is the overwhelming amount of people getting plastic surgery. In the last ten years the number of people getting plastic surgery has grown so much that it is now thought to be the biggest growing trend of the decade (Thrapp 146). In 1997 "plastic surgeons performed an estimated 2.1 million cosmetic procedures, from nose jobs to lipo-suction to collagen injections. That's up 50% since 1992, and the popularity of procedures like breast augmentation and lip

I think it would be very valuable to our society to reevaluate our stance on age. We are no longer in touch with the real important aspects of life and everything is based on superficial ideals. We need to make all ages a bigger part of our societies image, especially since we are all hear together and we all contribute to different areas. We need to make everyone apart of the inner-group when it comes to age because we should all feel pretty, intelligent and most important wanted.

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t of new girl or boy band trying to make it big on the charts and if they do then they become a National icon. Everything about the media makes it so obvious the age group that everyone in society plays into the most is youth.

Being a member of the inner group and evaluating this out-group it becomes very obvious why the older generations try so hard. Some people see this effort as a mid-life crisis and simply their last desperate attempt. I, however, cannot blame their way of thinking and I know when I become known as an "older women" I am still going to make every effort to fit in with societies perfect image because that is what society has trained us to do since day one. I am constantly hearing negative assumptions and cliches that my age group has gath

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