HOT

We are in the end of August, and the weather has been so terribly hot!

But it's okay since all I do is go to the beach, swim, play beach ball and get an awesome tan.

I love the beach. The sound of the crashing waves, the kids running around or building things out of sand, laughing out loud, having fun, good music, meditating, reading books at the beach...

Oh so wonderful!

I love tanning. I think it's awesome. I love to be brown skinned. Laying under the sun at the beach is my favorite thing to do in the summer.

But that was yesterday... Until I saw this lady.

A lady came to the beach and lied on the sand. I looked at her and couldn't stop staring. Her body was very brown-tanned. Her skin was so wrinkled. Like she had so many lines (wrinkles) on her skin. She looked so damaged. It was like as if she was wearing some kind of a plastic bag on her. It was awful.
She looked something like this picture:








This made me think about so many things.
I knew that the sun is not healthy. I knew it makes spots and wrinkles and cancer. But I always ignore these facts and still do it. But is it worth it?

The lady looked horrible. She must loved the beach when she was young. Probably she still does. But how can she continue doing this when she's looking like that?

I don't want that to happen to me. Sun damages can only be seen by advanced age... Probably after 10 years or so. It's like I'm risking myself by this stupid thing, and for what? To look good for only some weeks? Tan fades fast! It doesn't last and every time I lay on the sand for that tan I just observe more UV. It is scary to look that repulsive.

Some people think, if you put on any sunscreen you won't get any tan. But it's wrong, sunscreen prevents burns and blocks the UV sun rays. It still can make us look brown, because it is still hot. It only will not make us look red!
Maybe you won't be brown as fast as you'll be without the sunscreen, but it doesn't mean you'll stay white.

I guess the best thing to do is to go for a sunless tanning lotion! It will give the looks and keep us healthy.
Speaking of damage and cancer, Smoking is the worst thing ever.
Nothing good comes out of it at all. Bad smell, bad breath, yellow teeth, addiction and all kinds of cancer in every part of the body.

The other day I was in an event. A lady came to talk to me, she had a very damaged mouth. She was speaking to me and I was looking at her mouth... Yellow damaged teeth and a very black gums. It was the first time I see someone like that in front of me. I know many smokers, but I guess they are all still young or not that heavy smokers. She looked so disgusting.

Smoking is like tanning. Both are fun and maybe cool at the time. But the damages and diseases happen only after years, and then the repentance comes.
I don't find smoking cool in any way. I respect who doesn't smoke much more. For me to see a handsome man, looking so good, and a cigarette is in his hand, ruins everything. He becomes disgusting.

Do you really want to have this mouth?
Think about it.