Fifty?

[Lepplady]

Twenty is a distant blur.
Thirty didn't bother me.
Forty came and went. No big deal.
But now that I'm staring down fifty, I'm really starting to wonder where my life has gone. And where the rest of it is going. There's a lot I want to get done before I croak, and I just don't know if I will.
I guess I'll just have to knuckle down to it and find out.

 

[MadamMack]

It's not so bad and I asked myself the same questions that you did when my 50th BD approached.
I'm just gonna live. I turned 52 a week ago. I'm pretty blessed. I'm not on any meds and my life is good. I've got love and I can still turn a few heads. The only advice I can give to you is to just be appreciative of each day and don't sweat the sh!t you can not fix. Don't let society preach to you what is good or beautiful. If you want to do more, then do it. Don't make a bucket list . . .just live. Don't question the past because you can't change it now.

 

[SharonC]

Hi all. Can't sleep, so I'm just giving up for a little while. I thought I'd come on to see if there were any other night owls. I'll try bed again, if I can make myself a little tired. Anyhoo, it's been almost ten years since I turned 50, so in a couple of months I'm looking straight at 60. Frankly, I'm looking forward to it. I embrace every wrinkle, every character line, and every grey hair (well, that I'll embrace when it starts growing back, anyway) since they all mark the person I have become through life. I don't apologize for how I look because I am comfortable in my own skin. Every day of life is precious and far too short for regrets. I take life as it comes, and try to be grateful when it's good, and when I have a bad day, I don't take it personally. Stuff happens. Just pull up the old proverbial socks and keep going.

Heavens, I get so wordy when I'm tired and can't sleep. This really helps though, cause I know I've got a great group like you guys who understand.

 

[Sergei]

I'm 71, and don 't feel a day older than when I was 70. Or 60. Or 50. After all. age is just a matter of bones and articulations.

 

[91rewoT]

It's just a number Lepplady... Madam and Sharon both gave you great advice. Here's a quote I love and perhaps something we should all try to live by!


“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!”

― Hunter S. Thompson

 

[Spideyman]

Hit 69 a few months ago. It's all a matter of how you look at things. Stay in the positives. Keep young thoughts. Don't dwell when/if you find you get tired a little quicker, it's part of life. Just enjoy each and every moment you are given.

 

[king family fan]

I think 50 is when we all start thinking what we want to accomplish yet. Never ending list. How can we live life to its fullest and what can we do to not leave so much left behind for others to do. And pray to live to be 100.

 

[Dana Jean]

It's just a number Lepplady... Madam and Sharon both gave you great advice. Here's a quote I love and perhaps something we should all try to live by!


“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!”

― Hunter S. Thompson

Absolutely.

 

[Lepplady]

I think it's just new to me to worry about my age. Never have before. And I'm not really worrying, exactly. I know that I won't feel any different two weeks from now than I do today. It's just that there are projects, both written and artistic, that I want to finish. And I've always taken for granted that I've got all the time in the world to do them. And I don't. I've got to stop lollygagging and get it done.
Starting now.

 

[Walter Oobleck]

...you could relive the glory days...what w/those discounts offered to those "55 & older"...that'd be a switch, hey? pretending you're older to get in for less? high five! I never imagined being carded at my age...but the wife pointed this out to me whilst we were on vacation. And then there was the nice little cashier over at Louie's a month ago...do you need help with that bag? EEEEEK! (looks like we don't have pizzed-off old guy smiley) No ma'am, I replied, as I zoomed off in that go-cart they provide for seniors.

 

[Shoesalesman]

Don't remember turning twenty, hated turning thirty for some reason, but forty wasn't bad. I'm pretty well right where I imagined my life would be when I was younger; working a job I love, loving the woman I'm with, being the father that my kids can say was kind & helped guide their world for the better.
My parents are still here, and I enjoy every minute with them.
I have a belief system now that helps me give more than I take.
I'm comfortable with my place and purpose in the universe, which, in turn, has minimized my "wants" list. That is the most freeing feeling in the world!
Who knows what fifty will hold, but I'm rollin' with it, baby!

 

[Lepplady]

I've been given a senior discount a few times. Mostly before I touch up my grey. And I haven't corrected them. I just took the discount and smiled. So I guess it won't be so bad actually earning them.

 

[Agincourt Concierge]

Oh LL .... 50 is great !! Enjoy everyday God has given you .... whether you are 50 or 21 .... you never know when your time will be up .... hey 50 is half of 100 !! you're half way there !

 

[Dana Jean]

The thing that weirded me out a bit about the 50s was, my mother was already a grandmother many times over by her 50s (I'm not), and she was a widow. I'm a year older than she was when she became a widow. Just weird.

 

[GNTLGNT]

...thirty was the roughest for me...and now at 52(you and me Charbaby!), that my age has surpassed my IQ-I really don't think to much about it anymore...just happy I'm not wearing rubber pants and still remember where I live...

 

[Agincourt Concierge]

...thirty was the roughest for me...and now at 52(you and me Charbaby!), that my age has surpassed my IQ-I really don't think to much about it anymore...just happy I'm not wearing rubber pants and still remember where I live...

amen brother .... amen

 

[MadamMack]

...thirty was the roughest for me...and now at 52(you and me Charbaby!), that my age has surpassed my IQ-I really don't think to much about it anymore...just happy I'm not wearing rubber pants and still remember where I live...

You've got that right baby . . .when I hit 50 after some self searching, hell it felt damn good! Like a major milestone~

 

[SharonC]

I think it's just new to me to worry about my age. Never have before. And I'm not really worrying, exactly. I know that I won't feel any different two weeks from now than I do today. It's just that there are projects, both written and artistic, that I want to finish. And I've always taken for granted that I've got all the time in the world to do them. And I don't. I've got to stop lollygagging and get it done.
Starting now.

You go, girl!

 

[Agincourt Concierge]

are you all cool now with your great new age ??

 

[Lepplady]

I've still got a week and a day to get used to the idea. But my moment of panic is over. I don't know what that was. My age has never bothered me before. Weird.
I know I'll wake up that day and feel like any other.