What happened when you reached 50?

[blandana]

Freak out? Chill out? Fine tune the bucket list? Do drugs? Go raving? Go on a retreat? Detox? Carry on as normal? Nothing?

Life continued.

I'm not sure 50 is all that relevant is it. 40 is the absolute end of being young. 68 is retirement (ish).

I mean celebrate anyway.

In COVID. I got to see my lovely mum for the first time in 8 months.

I don’t remember feeling any different! I still felt quite young at 50. Now I’m going to be 60 I do feel a bit older (a bit stiff in the mornings!)!

Cake and champagne.
Although less of both than in my younger years. Overindulgence is no longer such fun.

I had a big party to celebrate turning 50 and completing my first year of teaching. I didn't see 50 as the beginning of the end. With average life expectancy of 82, you are not even 2/3rds of the way there.

I had a bit of an epiphany. I realised that I was actually pretty fabulous, and lost all my younger hang ups. My fifties have been good to me!

Rapidly approaching 60 now though…

Carry on as usual, nothing changes.

Nothing much. Had a party when I turned 60.

My pelvic floor decided to prolapse, in triplicate.

I’m already at the stage where IDGAF. I am a member of the We Do Not Care Club. However I do know what I believe and like and if you don’t agree…that’s fine too, as long as you leave me alone.
The best thing about being older and wise by miles.

My period took a few months off i got all excited then it showed up again after a couple of months

My hair is now going grey with a vengeance and is actually white in places

My hip hurts and I keep pulling ligaments the latest one being in the top of my foot (which is new)

My bras dont fit ive not gained weight i think its shrinkflation personally the straps just seem too narrow and they dig in and how can a 34D fit better on the band size than a 36D? Ridiculous

Anyway ive developed a taste for comfy clothing and shoes and I don't actually give a shit about things as much as I once did

The year I turned 50, I came home from studying and working abroad, sold my house on the south coast, moved to a part of the country I’d never even visited, and started a new job in a new field. I can’t even remember my actual birthday, tbh.

This made me lol. I turned 50. That’s it. I had a lovely day and managed to long out my 50th celebrations for a few months with various friendship groups, but ultimately, it was just the ‘next’ day

Oooh!! Brave! Good on you!!! What was the new job in a new field may I ask? I feel I need a complete change of tack!!

I went for a career change, booked a few girls holidays, as the kids can manage themselves now.

I am also a member ow the We don’t care club. Found some fab friends!

I was actually pretty amazed and grateful to have lived half a century.
I am loving being in my fifties. I am remembering life beyond work and childcare. It would be even more fun without a cost of living crisis.

Nothing, it's not a big deal

I’m 50 in November, can’t say I like the sounds of it 🙈
So I’ve decided I’ll stay 49 for another year , it’s like when you decide to repeat a year in school 🤷🏻‍♀️😁..
So come back again & ask me next year 🙌 😌

It was lockdown, so it passed me by somewhat.

51=menopause, 55=reduced hours and dipped into pension pot 58=downsized again and hours now a lovely 4hrs per week. I’m not ready to quit altogether yet- lovely job but also want to spend the next decade (whilst I hopefully have my health) with my young adult kids and their partners and families while I can. We all get along well and enjoy meals out and thr odd weekend together. It’s fun. Maybe the funnest mostly relaxing time in my life, for decades. I’m now aware I’m on the ‘wrong side’ of 50, so have done a recent Swedish cleanse and started with instructions for my death to be as I wish-I did my will years ago, post divorce but that needs changing now, too.
Health wise, hair thinned with menopause but my diet was shit at the time-vitamins, iron and biotin have helped. I’m on HRT - and recently a vaginal oestrogen cream as my skin down below my as so dehydrated and sore - perineal area especially, and the back of my head has been SO itchy again, lately. Need to sort that. I feel so, permanently dehydrated. I
think every decade changes your outlook and perspective. I look back at the misery a couple of exH’s I allowed to cause me and can’t believe it was so weak to allow them. What was I thinking? The face sags a bit now, lines are deepening - I cba with Botox/aesthetics, I’ve put on weight round my middle, but every day in walk my dogs through the beautiful cemetery and look at the gravestones, where so many didn’t live past 40- and I’m happy for another day on this godforsaken planet!

@Missj25 snap! I have even told my husband to totally ignore the fact it's my birthday. Gonna deactivate facebook for a bit around that time too. Want to gloss over it totally. Most family will forget without facebook to remind them anyway

I want to be at home more. I feel really pissed off when people invite me places. I’ve stopped making excuses and just tell them I don’t want to. They seem to understand, but I don’t seem to care either way. I like being with DH and my DD. I love napping, and don’t feel guilty. I don’t do house work if I don’t want to and I don’t care 🤷‍♀️

I actually quite like my 50’s. It’s liberating.

Me too!

And me! It was a party for one! 😅