TODAY THE INTERNATIONAL DAY OF OLDER PERSONS IS CELEBRATED
The prestigious magazine Sports Illustrated surprised with the cover of Nicola Griffin, one of the best-known senior models in the world. The magazine, a world reference in quality of life and sports, usually puts young celebrities in their twenties, slender athletes with impressive physiques, on its covers. However, Nicole's cover took the Internet by storm and managed - which is what this publication intended - to accentuate beauty with a capital letter regardless of age. “It's no longer about being 20 years old and measuring 1.77. We're bored of that! We are all of different ages and sizes and that is where the beauty lies. We are real women (…) At 56 years old I feel better than ever. I have faith. "I feel attractive," she confessed to the British newspaper Daily Mail.
He International Day of Older Persons, instituted by the United Nations, Its objective is to highlight the problems and threats that afflict older people who, as has been seen with the COVID 19 pandemic, are not always well considered and protected.
However, it is also a good day to look for those elements that give something special to older people, beyond what popular heritage knows as providing experience or serenity to families and society as a whole. Beauty is an element that must be intrinsically linked - it is not alien to it - to maturity because, definitely, it is like that.
According to the UN, this year the number of people aged 60 and over will exceed children under 5 years of age and over the next three decades, the number of older people worldwide is expected to double, reaching more than 1.5 billion in 2050. A world in which we all feel good is essential to face the next challenges that the future poses to us, where the elderly will have a lot to say.
