It occurs to me that our cultural obsession with youth comes from an ancient place. Its roots are survival. Ancient cultures worshiped youth because of its connection to fertility. It came from a place of survival when times were hard and life was much more fleeting. In those cultures large curved women also represented abundance and survival. Those concepts of beauty have survived to this day. Western culture still worships youth while other cultures continue to worship large figured women. It comes to mind how manufactured these concepts are. They come from a place of fear and were created by humans. Women in western culture today are dealing with being devalued as they age. Just when they step into their own power they are told that their value is gone. They are no longer fertile. Since concepts of beauty were created by fear, what would happen if we created new concepts of beauty from a place of love and gratitude? What would beauty look like then?