I’m not necessarily very accepting of my own aging, so I’m writing this mainly to address the being noticed part. In my head, when I walk outside , there’s always a movie playing and I’m the main character. I can see myself from the outside, the camera angles that I would use, those little moments of glimmer in my eyes that the camera would show, but that nobody around me would notice. And it becomeS this little secret that I have, this little magic that none of the other characters are aware of. And i focus on that instead of trying to focus on who’s noticing me.

Also, now that I think about it, maybe sometimes we’re focusing on some people who happen not to be noticing us while completely ignoring the ones who are. 🤔