Getting older

[Deeperthantheocean]

Not easy

I have found that I enjoy gardening and my mugs have pictures of flowers on them. This is shocking and evidently a sign of getting older.

HRT and vitamin B, does help with the energy. No alcohol and less sugar would also help, but not going to happen.

🤣 so true. Last week found myself alongside 4 other 50something women in a charity shop, all buying floral.

And they are alive!!! Many a good person I know didn’t make 50. Therefore I never complain about getting old.
Positives of being older for me are:
Not stressing about the future as I have met my tribe, have my family
I know I am content in my life
Can still have good craic with good people.
Nicer house
Better paid
being older is class!🤣

Not sure telling us we're all just fleeting dust and meaningless is going to cheer many folk up tbh

That sounds very hard. I'm sorry

Didn't say we were meaningless. Fleeting dust...eventually yes. We're passing through and it helps me, and others, to focus on our spirit and the next life.

The alternative isn't any easier either.

I’m nearly 50, the menopause is just kicking in and sometimes I just cannot be arsed anymore. My sleep is all over the place and I can see my scalp through my hair.

But then I remember I have a lovely Dad, a great DP, my kids are off starting their own grown-up lives and I’m financially stable. Lots to be happy about here.

I'm 64. Can't say I'm in the happiest place now. Was widowed 3 yrs ago.

3 ops in 3 yrs - stuff that would have been taken care of were it not for lockdown and being a carer.

Became very sedentary. Could hardly get off the couch, even using my arms. (One of the ops was a shoulder decompression.)

Got a bit of physio and the physio referred me to an exercise programme. Have been going 3 months now. The difference it has made has been amazing.

Arms are stronger - upper arm muscles seem to be back and thigh muscles are back to normal - can now stand up from the couch easily, without using my arms to push up. Can also walk upstairs without hauling myself by my arms.

Not much, but it's made an improvement to my quality of life.

I am 60. If I don't keep active, everything aches. Being sedentary is the killer, I find. I do get tired more easily than I did 5 or 6 years ago.

The turkey neck really pisses me off though! I moisturize it several times a day in the hope it makes it less noticeable. But I have friends who either haven't made it this far or who are battling really serious illness, so I count my blessings. .

There is a video on YouTube by Barbara O Neill....'muscles know no age'. Our muscles literally know no age. Use them, or lose them. Plenty strong ppl in 80s lifting weights.

Turkey neck is a killer. My neck used to be so firm and smooth. Very hard to let go of my once swan-like neck.

I know. I don't mind my lines, but the turkey neck is shite.

I have t got the energy I used to have and can't walk long distances without feeling exhausted . I think I can do more than I actually can .

I’m mid-60s, and enjoying life better than ever before now I’m retired. I’ve lost loads of weight, joined (and regularly use) the gym, fill my days with walking and learning new stuff, and my evenings with WI, plays, films and operas. I have the time to shop locally for fresh food, and to cook it well, though I also eat a lot of salads. I’ve shaken off the end-of-career aches, pains and exhaustion, and have more energy than at any time since my teens. Hang in there, folks - it gets better…

Blimey, I just googled her!! Banned and struck off everything eeek, whoever she was!

I think it's going through menopause that does it. It's like being hit by a truck. Nothing quite works like it used to and weird shit happens.

Lol! Yes, shes banned because of controversial views. I find her talks on YouTube interesting. She talks about the importance of good salt, exercise, sleep, emotions. She has a great video about castor oil. It literally cures everything.
If not Barbara O Neill, another health practitioner.

Weird shit? It's scary not having control over your own body.

I'm almost 50. Having lost two friends in their 40s, I only have gratitude for every year of life I get, and for getting older. Even the hard aspects, because I'm still here with my family. They weren't that lucky.

I was very ill through most of my 40s and spent a lot of time on my sofa.
Now in my 50s I can walk and garden again and I have joined a gym. It feels like life has started again.

It's inevitable though.
You can cry about it, or accept it.
Life moves on.
Just try to figure out the new version of you and adapt to any new roles.

I am late 50s and am definitely just tired and achey in the morning. I. Look after grandchild for 24 hrs once a week and work part time. Brain is definitely not as sharp . Just try and look after diet and use my brain every day.

I just flipped my hair back in a sexy fashion and sprained my neck. I’m 56.