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Closing in on 60...any tips on how to feel good about it?
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<blockquote data-quote="ScentofCedar" data-source="post: 376401" data-attributes="member: 3353"><p>Well, I have two things that might help. The first is that, in many religious belief systems, the fiftieth year is the jubilee year. A time to assess, and to celebrate, what has been created. That helped me when I turned fifty (58, now). If you step back and view your life, your hopes and tragedies and triumphs from that perspective, the whole, long chain of events that make up our lives becomes unique and amazingly beautiful.</p><p></p><p>And each of our lives is an incredible, and incredibly complex, gift. We need to step away and look at it in its entirety to realize that, sometimes. </p><p></p><p>The second thing is this: As I mature, I am shocked at how quickly it all went. Can it really have been forty years ago that this, that, or the next thing happened? I am beginning to lose friends and acquaintances to cancer, or other illnesses. All these things are scary and sad...but they help me remember that every day is the last day I may have, too. I try not to waste the days I have left, or any of the minutes in the days. Oh, I still get caught up in it sometimes ~ looking in the unexpected mirror, catching a glimpse of myself in a picture, worrying about my prostate after they play those stupid prostate commercials. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> (That was a joke.) </p><p></p><p>Barbara</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ScentofCedar, post: 376401, member: 3353"] Well, I have two things that might help. The first is that, in many religious belief systems, the fiftieth year is the jubilee year. A time to assess, and to celebrate, what has been created. That helped me when I turned fifty (58, now). If you step back and view your life, your hopes and tragedies and triumphs from that perspective, the whole, long chain of events that make up our lives becomes unique and amazingly beautiful. And each of our lives is an incredible, and incredibly complex, gift. We need to step away and look at it in its entirety to realize that, sometimes. The second thing is this: As I mature, I am shocked at how quickly it all went. Can it really have been forty years ago that this, that, or the next thing happened? I am beginning to lose friends and acquaintances to cancer, or other illnesses. All these things are scary and sad...but they help me remember that every day is the last day I may have, too. I try not to waste the days I have left, or any of the minutes in the days. Oh, I still get caught up in it sometimes ~ looking in the unexpected mirror, catching a glimpse of myself in a picture, worrying about my prostate after they play those stupid prostate commercials. :) (That was a joke.) Barbara [/QUOTE]
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