July 16th, 2007
What Does Age Mean?
What does age mean? What does age mean to you? I recently celebrated a birthday, and in general I don’t dwell on too much misery around the aging process. If I were older, wouldn’t I be much wiser? Judging by what is talking back to me in my thoughts I often wonder just how old I really am.
I don’t always sound as wise as I am guessing my years would equate to.
Does age really matter once we get to a certain point? I usually tell myself I feel quite young and I never feel old. I hear friends and relatives who are my age, say, now that I am “such and such an age” or things like “I am not getting any younger.” What are the ways that you talk to yourself about aging? Why does being a certain age mean you can no longer do certain things? You hear words like, “You can’t do that or wear that, at your age!”
It is the reverse end of the bell curve when people can no longer do what they want because of age? Remember being told that you were too young for this or too young for that? Then it seems to stop for a while, but begins again sooner than we would like it to. What age is at the top of the bell curve? Is the bell curve perceived differently by whatever age we are when we relate to an appropriate or inappropriate action?
I recently received an offer to purchase life insurance. I was looking at the prices and noticed my age was not even on the chart for the twenty year coverage. What does that say to me? I have decided to disregard that offer and continue to be the age I feel like.
I feel pretty darn good.
Yours in agelessness,
Lorraine
