I remember a health professional telling me shortly after diagnosis that I was so lucky to retain my youthful looks. I guess she would have been in her fifties then, and so may have been yearning to discover the elixir of eternal youth.
But for me? No sorry, to still look like a teenager at the age of twenty-five was more a curse than a prize. I went all through university and a masters degree looking like that. I think that’s hard to carry as a man.
Young men want to be tough and strong, confident and fit. They don’t want to look like a weed, a decade younger than their true age. I know the secret of eternal youth, but really I wish I didn’t.
Last modified: 12 May 2023
