Is 50 the new 40?
I have some good news!!! I just read a blog today with the title Fifty is the New Forty. See what I mean. This good right? If 50 is the new 40 then 80 must be the new 65. Statistics and numbers can mean anything so why not? What do you think?
For a woman like me that can remember when being over 30 made you the enemy and old, benchmarks like 50+ have taken on a new meaning. Perhaps in my world 50 is the new 30. We are, in fact remaining healthy vital active people for a very long, long time. I will be 70 in November. I just finished cataract surgery and can see better than I ever have. I have resolved that, since it looks like I am going to live a long time, I am going to take Aubrey de Grey's advice and keep my body as strong as my mental age.
I believe that most of outcomes in our life are a result of self-prophecy. For example, when you go to work and your pencil breaks, you can do two things. You can sharpen the pencil. Or you can say "Oh this is going to be one of those days." put the pencil in the garbage and spend the rest of the day blundering around with no pencil. It is all a matter of what you visualize coming down the pike. I believe that when people talk and visualize their retirement they should be realistic and upbeat. The retirement self-prophecy will be what you make of it.
Women in the baby boomer generation are very influential and they will be the ones that change everyone perception about what aging will look. They are shaping the "self prophecy" for women approaching old age. That too is very good news. More of these women are educated and working at pursuits that satisfy them than woman of my generation. As a result, we are seeing more and more positive, encouraging blogs, websites and magazines designed for the 50+ crowd. The successful positive women are more visible than ever. At my age I benefit from all those things. I love More magazine, Fab Over Fifty website. Advanced Style Blog and even all the things that AARP has to offer now. The world of the aging female is expanding in size and importance.
I read somewhere that women do indeed live on Venus...even in retirement. The 50+ woman is taking care of business but they are talking about living. Male bloggers are more focused on work related subjects and financial concerns. Like women have done for so many generation, they keep the books and manage the daily life for themselves and their families. When they write, women talk about love, working, having fun, learning and maintaining their health. It could be that the attitude of woman is entirely different. Many of us approach the aging process with an eye to aesthetics. Many women have always done day to day things so retirement is not a wonderland of doing nothing. They know better...retirement is just living. Hopefully, all women view that stage in their life as an opportunity to grow intellectually. On Venus the doors are always open and it is so beautiful here! And the numbers associated with the length of our existence are meaningless.
I invite you to visit the websites I mentioned above:
Have a wonderful Sunday and week to come.
b
Note: And now I see that GenX is following in the Boomers footsteps. More's editor and chief, Lesley Jane Seymour was one of those interviewed for a wonderful article in the Los Angeles Time.
I have some good news!!! I just read a blog today with the title Fifty is the New Forty. See what I mean. This good right? If 50 is the new 40 then 80 must be the new 65. Statistics and numbers can mean anything so why not? What do you think?
For a woman like me that can remember when being over 30 made you the enemy and old, benchmarks like 50+ have taken on a new meaning. Perhaps in my world 50 is the new 30. We are, in fact remaining healthy vital active people for a very long, long time. I will be 70 in November. I just finished cataract surgery and can see better than I ever have. I have resolved that, since it looks like I am going to live a long time, I am going to take Aubrey de Grey's advice and keep my body as strong as my mental age.
I believe that most of outcomes in our life are a result of self-prophecy. For example, when you go to work and your pencil breaks, you can do two things. You can sharpen the pencil. Or you can say "Oh this is going to be one of those days." put the pencil in the garbage and spend the rest of the day blundering around with no pencil. It is all a matter of what you visualize coming down the pike. I believe that when people talk and visualize their retirement they should be realistic and upbeat. The retirement self-prophecy will be what you make of it.
Women in the baby boomer generation are very influential and they will be the ones that change everyone perception about what aging will look. They are shaping the "self prophecy" for women approaching old age. That too is very good news. More of these women are educated and working at pursuits that satisfy them than woman of my generation. As a result, we are seeing more and more positive, encouraging blogs, websites and magazines designed for the 50+ crowd. The successful positive women are more visible than ever. At my age I benefit from all those things. I love More magazine, Fab Over Fifty website. Advanced Style Blog and even all the things that AARP has to offer now. The world of the aging female is expanding in size and importance.
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| In our 70's and still loving bling! |
I invite you to visit the websites I mentioned above:
Have a wonderful Sunday and week to come.
b
Note: And now I see that GenX is following in the Boomers footsteps. More's editor and chief, Lesley Jane Seymour was one of those interviewed for a wonderful article in the Los Angeles Time.
Gen X women, young for their age.
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