In September, I will celebrate my fifty-fifth birthday... and I am really excited!! I am so happy to have lived as long as I have, and have no aches and pains to speak of, that I wake up every morning thanking God for such a wonderful life. Sure, I'd love to have more money, and I'd like to publish at least one book, but all-in-all, it has been pretty good!
Why, then, do I have some former classmates who list their birthdates as the year of our graduation from high school/ entrance into college ( as undergraduates)? Why do they lie? Why not just leave the year off? I guess they think that, because they dye their hair to appear on screen (the two that I'm thinking of are both in areas of entertainment) people won't think that they're as old as they really are. Is there really something wrong with being over fifty? I figure that, if Oprah doesn't mind admitting her age, I don't mind admitting mine!
This past week, I began the process of stepping up my workout schedule by adding at least one, maybe two more days... Water aerobics on Monday and Wednesday (adding Monday instead of just on Wednesday), Zuumba on Tuesday, and I may even add a low-impact workout on Thursday. I'm not really interested in losing weight; it just makes me feel good! There are lots of people in my YMCA classes that are older than I am, and none of them believe me when I tell them my age (they think I'm younger!) I do not dye my hair because I don't want it to thin or fall out, and, besides, someone once told me that even if I did, I couldn't de-age my face and neck! My face and neck look pretty good... but I'm still not coloring my hair! Gray is a color!
Anyway, I just love being fifty-four, and I will love fifty-five even more! My children are both in their twenties, and they're intelligent (maybe even a little "nerdy"), independent thinking, and getting to be self-reliant! I feel very blessed! Will I ever deny my age? Don't count on it!
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