Hey, Unicorn, cheer up!
I don't think that post is so important, I really think it's all about this TV culture that tries to tell us that your body has to be perfect in the way they determine, you must have no wrinkles, follow the fashions without questioning and disappear as soon as you turn 40, so you can make a beautiful corpse (alternatively you can spend more than half your life hidden from the sight of others or go for surgery until nobody recognises your face any more).
That is simply stupid, Bono is not old, he's getting older, of course, everybody does, right from the beginning, even before you are born, youth is the only illness that will surely be cured by time. He's 47 and he's very attractive, I guess he will probably be when he is 70, he has a great charisma and a lovely, beautiful soul some of us can see when we look at the stars in his eyes. For me, at least, he isn't short either, he's taller than me and an average guy in Europe (I know boys are taller in the US).
But we must admit this person can be right at one point, may be there many anonimous guys who can be physically similar to Bono and we don't care about them. Even worse, I know lots of singers, actors and anonimous people who are younger and "more beautiful" than Bono from the beauty cannon point of view and I don't care about them. I understand some people may feel frustrated, life is like this, I could be getting mad at Bono because he doesn't fall in love with me, even if I have brown, Spanish eyes..., but I don't, it would be stupid. Really, the post is all about frustration.
(Well, I admit I sometimes get mad........... when he takes out his shades and I see those blue eyes and his beautiful smile I ..
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