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Closing in on 60...any tips on how to feel good about it?
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<blockquote data-quote="muttmeister" data-source="post: 376323" data-attributes="member: 135"><p>I'll be 63 in December and life is better than ever. I have a group of friends I met in college and the year we all turned 60 we rented a condo at Daytona Beach and celebrated. I guess I've never been one who worries about my age; any day I wake up above ground is a good one.</p><p> </p><p>As I look around at people I know, the 20's are neurotic, the 30's are crazy, the 40's are too busy to know what is going one, the 50's are tired, but by the time you hit 60 a lot of the pressure is off and you can enjoy yourself. Usually your kids are grown by then (or nearly so), you may still need a job but you probably don't have to conquer the world in your career, most of us have realized we are never going to be millionaires and have learned to live with it. I know my kids still have problems but they are old enough that it is no longer up to me to "fix them." I will never be rich and famous; I will never write the great American novel, I will never do a lot of the things I might have dreamed of when I was younger but I have learned by now that not only is that OK, it is probably a good thing. By this time of life, hopefully, you have time to sit down and enjoy the sunet and smell the flowers. </p><p> </p><p>I look at my mother enjoying life at almost 96, my aunt who goes to the gym and swims 10 laps a day at 93, and all of the older women I'm acquainted with who are still vital and living life to the fullest. I think of people like Golda Meir who became prime minister of Israel late in life, Georgia O'Keeffe who did some of her best work late in life, Betty White who is now a sensation and almost 90, etc. Those women are not unusual; many people are more productive and have more "fun" later in life than they ever had when they were young. </p><p> </p><p>For me, the secret is to enjoy each stage of life as it comes. I wouldn't want, for all of the tea in China, to have to go back and relive my 20s or my 30s or my 40s or even my 50s. I'm enjoying my 60s for now, and when the time comes I will enjoy my 70s and 80s and so on, as long as I'm allowed to hang around on this earth. Don't dwell on what is gone; think about what you have now and what is yet to come.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="muttmeister, post: 376323, member: 135"] I'll be 63 in December and life is better than ever. I have a group of friends I met in college and the year we all turned 60 we rented a condo at Daytona Beach and celebrated. I guess I've never been one who worries about my age; any day I wake up above ground is a good one. As I look around at people I know, the 20's are neurotic, the 30's are crazy, the 40's are too busy to know what is going one, the 50's are tired, but by the time you hit 60 a lot of the pressure is off and you can enjoy yourself. Usually your kids are grown by then (or nearly so), you may still need a job but you probably don't have to conquer the world in your career, most of us have realized we are never going to be millionaires and have learned to live with it. I know my kids still have problems but they are old enough that it is no longer up to me to "fix them." I will never be rich and famous; I will never write the great American novel, I will never do a lot of the things I might have dreamed of when I was younger but I have learned by now that not only is that OK, it is probably a good thing. By this time of life, hopefully, you have time to sit down and enjoy the sunet and smell the flowers. I look at my mother enjoying life at almost 96, my aunt who goes to the gym and swims 10 laps a day at 93, and all of the older women I'm acquainted with who are still vital and living life to the fullest. I think of people like Golda Meir who became prime minister of Israel late in life, Georgia O'Keeffe who did some of her best work late in life, Betty White who is now a sensation and almost 90, etc. Those women are not unusual; many people are more productive and have more "fun" later in life than they ever had when they were young. For me, the secret is to enjoy each stage of life as it comes. I wouldn't want, for all of the tea in China, to have to go back and relive my 20s or my 30s or my 40s or even my 50s. I'm enjoying my 60s for now, and when the time comes I will enjoy my 70s and 80s and so on, as long as I'm allowed to hang around on this earth. Don't dwell on what is gone; think about what you have now and what is yet to come. [/QUOTE]
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