What do you love about being over 50?What do you appreciate about it

[whatisforteamum]

I have always looked forward to each new milestone/chapter.
I I'ove the fact I can do as I please outside of work.I am stronger than in my 20s when I did care what people thought...I don't now.I love my own company.
I have remained slim and I wear some colourful clothes which I think helps me feel younger.
So much emphasis is on the menopause which I have really struggled with.
I wonder what makes you happy and do you feel stronger and wiser now?

I love that my DC are now young adults and adults and I have lots of time to myself to pursue my hobbies of going to the spa, cinema and seeing my friends. Having said that I also really enjoy spending time with my DC as our relationships are now like a friendship and we get each other’s humour and have a good laugh.
I like that I have long shiny hair and still feel pretty.
I like that I have lots of time for my friends and do lovely things with my DH each weekend.
We still have a family holiday every summer but also take multiple trips abroad as a couple.

Not giving a fuck

Being invisible to lecherous men is awesome.

I have no more fucks to give. If I don’t want to do something, I don’t. I have only one left in the nest and she is fairly self sufficient. I have more time to spend with my friends. No more early rising. Fifty is a time to reset for me.

They say that in life you need three things to really enjoy yourself: time, energy and money.
When you're in your teens and 20s, you have time and energy but no money.
When you're in your 30s and 40s, you have money and energy but no time.
When you're in your 60s and 70s you have time and money but no energy.

Only in your 50s do all three come together.

Well that's the theory anyway. I intend to make the most of it before I become completely clapped out!

Love that I m still alive .
That i m settled in my career.
That both my dc are young adults now so we get on great and I will never have to do a school run with moody teens again.
That I m confident enough to say no and stand up for myself (I was such a mouse in my 20s. Thankfully dd isnt).
That I dont have periods anymore.
That people think I look late 30s (especially since I changed my shoulder length brown hair for a long blonde streaked bob).
That I have the money for a lovely car and not have to buy the cheapest.

Finally not caring what people think and having the courage to do/say things that a younger me would have baulked at.

This is particularly the case at work. I'm coming up to retirement so am a lot braver about voicing my opinions and sticking to my guns.

That I'm fitter than I was in my 20s - don't smoke, exercise, eat more healthily.

That I now truly understand "this too shall pass".

That I'm financially comfortable.

Not giving a fuck, sums it up really.

That I spend so much less time caring about what other people think.

No longer having periods(last one at 52)! Hooray .Still have to watch poor DD struggle though!

Caring MUCH less about what people think of me (that seems to be a theme with all of us)
More comfortable about what to wear; I wear what suits me, not what's fashionable.
I had children late so mine are still teenagers but if find them HILARIOUS and I very much enjoy embarrassing them, but also having the wisdom which comes with age to talk to them about their problems.
Also- I'm on the last leg of my career and retirement is on the horizon which makes it much easier to bear.

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I don't give a flying fuck what people think of me. And i love my steel grey/silver hair.

And I LOVE that when i tell the youth to get their sodding dirty fucking shoes off the train seats, they do it. And sit up straighter

Yes I agree.Not giving a fuck.Life is too short to care what others think.I love watching my grown up dcs become adults and when people say how hard they work and how lovely they are it fills me with happiness.
I think it is a nice stage of life much like my 40s.