Aging - Page 3

blackhole99 · ‎08-22-2013

@Pook wrote:
Some really great and meaningful thoughts here but also a few awfully negative. I'm 65 and don't think of myself as old - but just as me! I workout daily (like I always have) - 45 minutes resistance, 45 minutes Zumba Activate, walk with my dog for 3 miles daily among other things and don't really think about the age number. And yes I use many skin care products and makeup (that actually do work to improve my skin) because I want to look and feel my best and not to stop aging. There's nothing wrong with that like someone stated. I have a great life not always free from problems or health issues. Sure I have aches and pains, am noticing some wrinkles, bumpy fingers, and some stiffness but I just keep being me and will not give in to them saying I embrace my age. Also, I have never felt nor have I been made to feel irrelevant because of my age. I think that's something many project on themselves. Life at any age can be trying and I am not defined by a number or by being old or young.

Are we reading the same thread, I have not read a negative post yet.

Pook · ‎03-20-2010

@blackhole99 The negatives are:

"isn't looking for the next costly beauty product that hopefully will keep her from aging, but never does."

What is wrong with wanting to look and feel your best by using great skincare and makeup. They can and do work at improving the appearance of skin which makes you feel better. It's not about wanting to keep you from aging but looking and feeling as good as you can.

"Our looks may be fading, others may dismiss us at old,"

I don't see it as looks fading. We go through different phases in life and can look great at any age. The attitude that looks are fading means that you think less of your self because of your age. The way you look at 5 years old is different than at 15 or 25 or 35 , etc. I don't consider that my looks are fading - I'm just in a different phase of my life and am still happy with the way I look now at 65.

"sometimes society seems to treat us like we are not relevant, "

If anyone feels that society doesn't see us as relevent anymore - well I am still relevent and don't feel that way. I see it as making victims of ourselves and if that is what we think others will also!

"Yes, we get ignored or invisible as we age and some think we don,t have a brain, but you know who you are and you are not worthless. "

Our own attitudes can cause us to present ourselves in such a way that we are seen as helpless . I have never experenced that even when I joke about being older than dirt

blackhole99 · ‎08-22-2013

@PookI don't view those posts as negatives, just someone elses observation and opinion.

Pook · ‎03-20-2010

@blackhole99 It shows that we all have differing views of aging and dealing with it. What I pointed out are the negative perceptions of aging as obviously seen by those older that posted here and that I see my friends feeling and complaining about but I don't. I am happy, healthy, confident, don't see my changing looks as fading, have never experienced others treating me any differently now that I am older like some have posted. The only difference in these perceptions I can see is that I do not present and never intend to present myself as a senior citizen but just as the person I have always been and it seems because of my attitude I am not seen any differently by anyone. If you think you are different now because of your age, others will see you as that also. As @qvcaddiction posted: "Don,t act old and helpless, be strong. Keep up with current ideas a little more and technology. At the same time do for yourself as much as you can, independence."

novamc1 · ‎07-02-2015

The above posts are wonderful.

Age is often more a state of mind than a state of body. (With exception, of course, for those who suffer serious illness or disability.)

I'm about to turn 70, and I don't believe that I think like it, move like it, feel like it --and mostly focus my thoughts on what I want or need to do "tomorrow" or "next week"..........not what I did and perhaps left behind years ago in younger years.

I go out in public looking put together with nice clothes, clean hair and other than that, couldn't care less what others think about me..........which is the NICEST thing about getting older!! LOL!!

chiclets · ‎07-01-2012

It is funny, when you are young you can not wait to be a grownup, then one day you look, and see that your are old, not older, but old. You may have gray hair and wrinkles, and come to terms you are old, at whatever age or time you define it to be.

Embrace those senior moments of forgetfulness, they are moments granted to you to forget reality. You have learnt that growing up was a trap, and youth is wasted on the young.

However, you can do whatever the heck you want, answer to no one and smile when called an old crank, and elect to visit reality only as a tourist.

Be yourself, as you are, do what you are able and embrace your being.

blackhole99 · ‎08-22-2013

@Pookok, whatever you say.

Happiness Is Inside JOB · ‎06-14-2016

@Its Me LuLuBelle2

AMEN

Oh Ms. LULU you are so right. I have to work on my attitude. I just turned 50 and wow, at times I do feel ungrateful or really I guess the word is unappreciative of my blessing.

thanks!!!

I have to work on a positive attitude.

Happiness is ALWAYS an inside job,
Don't assign anyone else that much POWER
in your life!!!

AuntG · ‎03-09-2010

@blackhole99 wrote:
@Pookok, whatever you say.

==Poetic words from the OP. Maybe the anti aging products and dollars wasted on them speak to the subconscious fears people have about aging. After seeing the devastating effects of Alzheimer's disease, that has become a charity of choice. $145 TSV that is supposed to reverse the effects of aging could be used by numerous charities that help older Americans. While I would not tell people how to spend their money, I also would not dissect the words of a thoughtful poster.