Getting Older and Living Your Best Life

If I believed all the ageist bs out there, I’d just curl up and die. But that ain’t happening.

Dear Reader:

Recently I was skimming the New York Times headlines on my phone, and I was struck by two headlines.

The first: “Uproar Hits CNN as Don Lemon is Rebuked for Comments About Women.”

Mr. Lemon has apparently pissed people off by asserting that “Nikki Haley is not ‘in her prime.’” The sub-headline reports this revelation “roiled the network.”

The second is about a Canadian news anchor, Lisa LaFlamme, who was “dismissed after a decades-long TV career, not long after she stopped dyeing her hair.”

I don’t know how much longer I can keep hearing about how women who are fortunate enough to reach a certain age whatever that is are past their prime, the controversy around “going grey” and whether Ozembic face is a thing.

Our culture is over the edge. I don’t think it’s just my feed, or in my head.

But I’m pretty tired of the fact that ageism is apparently still very much alive.

Struggling over here to process all that…..

When you’re young you’re not taken seriously, and when you’re no longer young you’re too old to be taken seriously.

What the proverbial f*.

It’s a damned if you do and damned if you don’t thing.

And it’s infuriating.

A sad reflection on the state of our culture, our collective consciousness.

Friends, I’m getting old over here, BECAUSE I’VE BEEN LUCKY ENOUGH TO HAVE MADE IT THIS FAR.

And I’ve never been happier, more productive, helped more people, enjoyed sex and food more. Yes I have wrinkles. I plan to eliminate some of them as soon as I stop renovating my house that’s 100 years old and much older than me (will it ever end?). But not because I feel shame in growing older.

I refuse to feel shame in growing older.

I’m proud of getting older.

I’m also proud that I’m in good physical condition, but mostly I’m proud that I’ve survived a lot of shit:

Tough times.

Death of loved ones.

Illness.

Divorce.

Stress from work.

Sexual assault.

Sexual harassment.

PTSD.

The Works.

That’s not even the Readers Digest version.

All that experience just makes me more qualified to solve problems and figure stuff out for others.

Which is what I love doing.

I plan on doing it for as long as I can, without or without a facelift.

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