old stuff

"I won't get married till I'm 4o," I said to my friend and she replied, "It's so unfair. A man can marry late. But a woman can't because after 30, all the old stuff come out..." and she was pointing to her face and by "stuff" she meant wrinkles and age spots and stuff like that and I thought, "True. I'm glad I'm not a woman." And I felt bad for having this thought.

At dinner, I thought the Korean waitress was very beautiful. I took a mental note of this from the moment she took our orders. In fact, throughout this day I met many fine-looking girls, like the girl at the restaurant who led customers to the tables (though I had found her a bit cold in her black outfit) and the girl at the Taiwanese Buddhist event who was in charge of selling the books (and I made a note to myself to practise more Mandarin). I bought a book from her and I'm about to read it.

As for my friend who was talking about the old stuff that is to come out on her face after she turns 30. She has a way of expressing herself that makes me feel she is very receptive to reality. She knows she will get old and she knows she should do something about it like go out to travel, explore, meet a nice rich man, and so on, and here I am thinking, what if we never get old? What if I'm always young?