This summer when I was visiting my grandpa for a couple of days, he opened up a document on the computer where there were hundreds of scanned images (old photos) saved and organized by years and dates of his ancestors – my great grandparents and their parents and their parents’ parents and so forth. It was really cool to look through them with my grandpa as he went into detail about each photo trying to remember what he knew about every one of them.

But then I noticed something on the photos that was a little bit weird – all of my grandpa’s relatives looked incredibly young, even in the pictures with their grandchildren they looked like they could have been the parents, not the next generation. Then when grandpa showed me his photos from the war, and from college I also noticed that he really didn’t look much different in his 40s from when he was in his 20s.

I asked grandpa what his secret was and how he managed to look so young. He told me that I should thank my lucky stars and that there were two things that people in our family have been inheriting for years – one, was good sight (grandpa has never had to wear glasses, nor did any of his siblings, parents, grandparents and so forth) and two – our family has always been known for looking young, which totally started making sense now why people always think that my mom is my older sister. So I say, if you have great young looking skin, call your grandparents and tell them thank you!