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Turning 50? Why Boomer
Women Should Feel Liberated & Not Despair Turning 50
by Doreen
Orion
Like many of us, until my forties, I had gone through life feeling rather invincible. Not only was it inconceivable that something bad could ever happen to me, even my very mortality seemed suspect. Then, when I started feeling creaks and aches in bones I hadn't thought about since anatomy class in medical school, it made me reluctantly concede that I actually was mortal - or even worse - getting older.
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Yet, now, as I close in on fifty,
I've made an even more shocking discovery: I just don't care.
I'm learning that there is so much that is surprisingly, gloriously
and wondrously liberating about the half-century mark. What's So Liberating About Turning 50 For example, what woman hasn't gone through life wishing she could just lose five or even ten pounds? Nearing fifty, I just… don't… care! I used to adhere to that universal female delusional calculus that calories don't count when snatched from a husband's plate. Now, it's "Yes! I WILL have fries with that!" Since I had gone low carb several years before, the pounds had crept up again, largely because I now insist on having a glass or two of wine with dinner. An informal and utterly unscientific, but no less persuasive poll of my female contemporaries reveals that, for some reason, nightly wine with dinner seems to be a right of passage for middle-aged women unto itself. |
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How My Newfound Freedom Progressed
Admirably.
Who needs to dress up and put on makeup, just for leaving the
house?
Not me.
No one looks at me anymore, anyway. Not that I ever used to be
a head turner, but just by virtue of youth, I got a few, secretly
cherished, second glances. Now, rather than feel badly I'm being
ignored, I love it! I go out without makeup, wearing ratty clothes
(which some might term, "pajamas") all the time. No
one notices. Who hasn't fantasized about what he or she could
do if rendered invisible?
Why I'm Excited to Turn 50 - And So Should You
I always thought I'd hate turning fifty, but now that it's looming,
I can't wait! What else will I discover that I don't care about?
Unfortunately, for my long suffering husband, understandably
horrified at this turn of events, men don't seem to enjoy the
same sense of liberation as they age. Perhaps it's because they
have far less to be liberated from. After all, society has always
placed so much more of a premium on women's looks.
Gentlemen, payback is a b----!
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