Reality Check

You’re only as old as you feel – until your skin appears magnified on a giant screen.

“I don’t like the look of that,” said the doctor.
“Holy shit!” I said. “I REALLY don’t like the look of that.”

He was examining a mole on my back.
I was staring at my skin, appalled.

It was the skin of an old person.

That day I paid for a skin check. That day I also got a reality check, for free.