Like all stages of life they are all divided equally giving us the ability to tell our life's story as it plays out over time. Thickening waistlines, ageing body parts, multiplying responsibilities and even aging, ailing and the death of our parents are all downsides of middle age and beyond. No mater how you try to define the aging process it's inevitably about loss. Whether it's the loss of fertility, decrease of stamina or the loss of a parent, it's only about one thing, the absent of youth.
So when does it begin? When do we begin to think of ourselves as not young anymore? I can hear most of your answers "Your only as old as you feel ". Be sure and remind me of that saying in a couple of months when I turn 60 years of age because middle age began and ended before I realized it.
So when does it begin? When do we begin to think of ourselves as not young anymore? I can hear most of your answers "Your only as old as you feel ". Be sure and remind me of that saying in a couple of months when I turn 60 years of age because middle age began and ended before I realized it.
Age is just a number. Makes no difference if that number is 2,22,or 102!!!!!! The only difference is............we get wiser as we get older!!
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"Age is an issue of mind over matter.
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(Mark Twain)
Last Sunday I had my 64th birthday. Growing old is not easy, it means saying "Good bye" to a lot of things, habits and people. Trying to make growing old something to look forward to is stupid or caused by marketing reasons of some industries. The time ahead seems to be very short now...
But then - what is the alternative? Better old than dead!!!
Celebrate your 60th birthday and enjoy every day that comes.
PS. And there are too many people around who only got older but NOT wiser!
- Christa in Germany, handicapped by the English language -