We turn not older with years but newer every day. Emily Dickinson
I think I can honestly say I am comfortable in my own skin. I can appreciate where I have been, where I am and I am excited about where I am going.
If you haven’t guessed, I had a Milestone birthday earlier this month. While not all milestones are happy, they are significant, literally, a stone acting like a marker or a milepost along the road of life.
While the crow’s feet and sun spots may hint at which decade I’ve just left, I am happy about exactly where I am. But I must note, that I place a priority on finding balance in my life and figuring out how to stay healthy.
Western society has put such a premium on youth and beauty and fixing stuff on the outside that we have neglected what goes on inside. Ageing, in fact, is really the weakening of the immune system by diet, stress, drugs, chemical toxins, etc. which then makes us susceptible to disease.
For some fun or a wake up call go to www.realage.com and take the test to see how old you are biologically as opposed to chronologically.
In Japan, ageing (and they have a specific word for it, Shibui) is considered “the revelation of beauty, the time when the inherent radiance becomes visible” (Beauty by John O’Donohue, p 185). I rather like the idea that rather than being over the hill, I’m just hitting my stride.
So rather than wasting this time worrying about Age Related Macular Degeneration and the like, I’m embracing this time with Age Related Joy and faithfully taking my Vitamin D, CoQ10, B1 and Omega 3’s.
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