the current thread on what you don’t like about aging is too much for me to ignore, so i guess it’s time i said something. these are the things i LIKE about growing older.
metabolism skidding to a halt: yeah, so change it. i slowly put on 20# over 15 yrs, took up weightlifting @ 52, lost 30#, look & feel fantastic. i’ve been doing the adkins’ diet for 2 yrs & am in excellent health. yeah, it’s work; but it’s most definitely worth it. i’m in better shape than ever in my life, which is a good thing because i expect to live to 100, as my maternal grandmother did.
nowhere career: i’ve had many careers, some in charge, some working for others. i’ve been a secretary @ a large corp for ~7 yrs, am fully trusted to do whatever needs doing, no one bothers me or asks questions. i take on as much respoonsibiity as i want but no more than that. make my own hours & get 3 wks vacation. would a mgmt job there give me more? only more headaches. (and, eve, people will remember helen gurley brown for her books, not her job at cosmo.)
graying blonde hair: i died it bright red a couple years ago. no more problem, no attempt to convince anyone it’s natural (tho i’m told it looks like it is) & i find peopole react to a redhead in an entirely different way than to a blonde. still getting used to that.
kids are grown & gone. the growing up thing was often rocky but we’re more like buds now. things can still get edgy occasionally (opinionated stubbornness runs deep in the family), but they actually come around to ask for advice & then take it. wow.
multiple organisms going by the wayside: no way! they only started at about 35 & have been getting better ever since. 20+/minute. (btw, i feel really sorry for those posters who have complained that sex takes too long. give me a man who can do 4-6 hrs a night 5 times or so weekly & i’m a mighty happy woman. & i’ve met only a couple of men i couldn’t bring to multiple orgasms themselves either, no matter how surprised they were about it.)
menopause: no big deal. i’ve looked forward to it my whole life because i’m always cold. & sex cures the crankiness, just as sex cures about anything.
wrinkles, looking older: i just never did much sunbathing as a kid & i never smoked. my age is regularly guessed at ~40. my last honey was 34, the one before him 43, both gorgeous (honest!). whatever i have, it apparently comes across as sexy rather than old. in my mind i’m definitely no beauty, but i can get the attention of men any age.
&, of course, there’s the stuff about being older & wiser; but people have come to me for answers since i was a kid. i guess i just always looked like i KNEW. the difference now is tht i don’t have the burning need to change the world any more.
so, what about you guys? surely i’m not alone in being happy about where i am right here/now.
The purpose of life is to matter, to count, to have it make a difference you lived at all.