WOULD YOU BE MR. BUTTON?

I recently found myself glued to The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. The movie not the book.

And it brought up the question: If you could reverse the aging process and go from being old to young, would you?????

In my opinion your screwed either way you look at it. You start out helpless and pretty much end helpless in both scenarios. Yes, getting older blows a big one. The skin sags, metabolism slows to add those extra pounds that no matter how much you exercise or diet will never leave. It's like having a house guest that comes to visit and never goes home.

Wrinkles proudly make themselves known. They start off slow with only a few here and there. Then you look in the mirror one day and swear they were getting busy like a pack of sex starved rabbits. And then the question screams from your inner sanctum: When did this happen? And should I call the best plastic surgeon in the city??????

Because no matter how we look at it time won't stop to wait for us. Despite all the things we still wish to accomplish. Time is a fickle creature and in some cases very unforgiving.

This is why reversing the aging process and going from old to young wouldn't be any better if you really think about it. Yeah, having your old wrinkly skin slowly morph into a taught smooth surface would be exciting. It would be like finding the fountain of youth without having to lift a finger or fork out any money. No skin products, no nip and tuck.

But then there would come a down side. As we get older we complain about how time has sped up and there aren't enough hours in the day to satisfy our personal needs. But when we were younger time would crawl by. So if in theory that time table was still the same we would not even get the chance to enjoy the new found youth as the years roll past. And I'm not sure I would want to get smaller. If only we could stop somewhere in the middle. Like the movie Logan's Run where everyone is retired at the age of 30 and it's this ethereal ceremony called Carousel that leaves you wondering if they will be reincarnated. Then again you'd have to go through that childhood thing and die just when life was getting good.

Chalk it up however you like. We start in diapers and let's face it, most of us will end in diapers. It's life's cruel little joke. So laugh it up and buy stock in Pampers or Depends.