Science Agrees

Life is said to be short, so we should make the best of it. However, we often focus on what the media guides to. We let our judgment be blocked. Instead of actually making our life as blissful as possible we burden ourselves with petty annoyances. The media says you have to look young or else your ugly. Even though, some people recognize the media effecting them, they are still falling for the trap. Wrinkles are ugly and we have to get rid of them. People who can't afford to get plastic surgery to preserve their young look turn to supplements. We are in constant search of the next best thing to help us look young. Now even science agrees with the philosophy of looking young. Now we have vitamin C to help in the process of looking young. Like in Brave New World everyone is conditioned to want to look young.
"Oh!" She gripped his arm. "Look."

An almost naked Indian was very slowly climbing down the ladder from the first-floor terrace of a neighboring house–rung after rung, with the tremulous caution of extreme old age. His face was profoundly wrinkled and black, like a mask of obsidian. The toothless mouth had fallen in. At the corners of the lips, and on each side of the chin, a few long bristles gleamed almost white against the dark skin. The long unbraided hair hung down in grey wisps round his face. His body was bent and emaciated to the bone, almost fleshless. Very slowly he came down, pausing at each rung before he ventured another step.

"What's the matter with him?" whispered Lenina. Her eyes were wide with horror and amazement.

"He's old, that's all," Bernard answered as carelessly as he could. He too was startled; but he made an effort to seem unmoved.

"Old?" she repeated. "But the Director's old; lots of people are old; they're not like that."

"That's because we don't allow them to be like that. We preserve them from diseases. We keep their internal secretions artificially balanced at a youthful equilibrium. We don't permit their magnesium-calcium ratio to fall below what it was at thirty. We give them transfusion of young blood. We keep their metabolism permanently stimulated. So, of course, they don't look like that. Partly," he added, "because most of them die long before they reach this old creature's age. Youth almost unimpaired till sixty, and then, crack! the end."
I find it ammusing how we nag to live happily ever after yet we fight every ounce of happiness that comes our way. Lenina wanted to go to the reservation. Then she see's one horrifying image and she is done. She wants to leave. The sight of the wrinkly old person physically harms her. She is disgusted at the sight. In this case it's not her fault to want to look young. She was conditioned to think like that. However, she thought the reservation would be fun and exciting so she should make the best of her experience.