Ageing Gracefully

Can I just get a little mushy here? I have only been lurking lately, mostly because I'm much busier at my new job and don't have the time to participate like I used to, but, also because there has just been a lot of nastiness on this forum lately. This thread has made me remember what a really fabulous group of wonderful, beautiful, strong, smart women there are here, and how much I like "talking" with you. I've enjoyed reading all your posts very much.

That's all!!!
 
TeTe said:
Can I just get a little mushy here? I have only been lurking lately, mostly because I'm much busier at my new job and don't have the time to participate like I used to, but, also because there has just been a lot of nastiness on this forum lately. This thread has made me remember what a really fabulous group of wonderful, beautiful, strong, smart women there are here, and how much I like "talking" with you. I've enjoyed reading all your posts very much.

That's all!!!
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Awwwww shucks!!!

Actually, I ditto that!
 
Me too!!! I ditto it. ;) (okay, not that I've read all the posts here but enough to get the tone, which I love...)

I got my first gray hair last year and I'm all giddy every time I find a new one. I feel a bit like a dork but I've always admired most gray-haired women. I DON'T CARE HOW OLD OTHER PEOPLE ARE and I don't quite understand why someone would want to hide their age. I really don't.

I EARN every year I am alive and every experience that comes with it. I'm lucky to consider myself wiser and stronger and to love and understand myself a little more every day.

I told my mom the other day I still mentally feel like I'm in my early 20s but I'm having WAY more fun than I did then. I have a much broader understanding of the world and my place in it. What could be better than that?? :D

YAY US (no matter what color our hair is!)
 
You ladies are sooo inspiring me to take the grey hair plunge! What a dork I am, I can't wait to be fabulous and forty!! :D

Sparrow
 
TeTe, I think I pretty much agree with every word you typed here today! When did you get so smart, young lady!?

I just have to say one thing -- I'm 53 and I intend to kick up my heels and raise hell until I die, and I'm not worried about wrinkles and all of that, but I'll continue to color my hair -- it's about 75% or 80% white and I just can't go there yet. :eek:
 
Miss Lee said:
TeTe, I think I pretty much agree with every word you typed here today! When did you get so smart, young lady!?

I just have to say one thing -- I'm 53 and I intend to kick up my heels and raise hell until I die, and I'll continue to color my hair, too. It's about 75% or 80% white and I just can't go there yet. :eek:
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You Go MISS LEE you wild and crazy gal!!! ;)
 
"TeTe, I think I pretty much agree with every word you typed here today! When did you get so smart, young lady!?"

Smart AND Young? :eek: Miss Lee, I need your mailing address to send you a check!!!:p
 
Miss Lee said:
Hi Catherine! I just wanted to call your attention to a minor edit in my post. How are you? How's your BIL (not that I'm trying to hijack the thread or anything :eek: ).
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Gottcha on the edit ;)

BIL is home and doing well. Thanks for asking!!
 
Miss Lee said:
I just have to say one thing -- I'm 53 and I intend to kick up my heels and raise hell until I die, and I'm not worried about wrinkles and all of that, but I'll continue to color my hair -- it's about 75% or 80% white and I just can't go there yet. :eek:
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So all I want to say on this subject is that DH's 83 year old+ grandma stopped coloring her hair last year and it still shocks me to see her. She's waay more beautiful with her all-white hair rather than her weak reddish hair so all I'm trying to say is don't wait too long!!! ;)
 
My grandmother and father were dark until almost 70, and it appears I am headed that way too. At 47, no grey. I figure I will wake up one day, and it will be all white!

About aging gracefully, I honestly do not think about it. Perhaps 50 will be different, I don't know.
 
amyg said:
So all I want to say on this subject is that DH's 83 year old+ grandma stopped coloring her hair last year and it still shocks me to see her. She's waay more beautiful with her all-white hair rather than her weak reddish hair so all I'm trying to say is don't wait too long!!! ;)
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Ame, I think that, at 83, I will also be beautiful with white hair... but not at 53. My mom had always dyed her hair and I never realized that she was gray until I came home from nursing school one weekend and she was totally gray :eek: . Now mind you, she was about 74 at the time, and that seems about right to me. Maybe when I'm 74 I'll stop coloring my hair. ;)
 
My grandmother had colored and frosted her hair blonde in the front and darker brown in the back for years. She decided to stop coloring it (I think she was in her late 60s? I can't remember exactly) and she discovered that her hair had gone gray similar to how she had been coloring it: a beautiful silver in front, getting darker gray in the back. It was beautiful. She said that if she had known it was going to look so good she would have stopped coloring it years before and saved herself a lot of money! She got tons of compliments on it. Now twenty or so years later it is a beautiful silver all over. I hope mine looks that great too when I get to that point.
 
grey hair

i just wanted to say that you dont have to wait for your grey to grow out if you're trying to do that.... you can have the color removed or bleach it to a light enough shade that will then allow you to die it the shade of grey or white your hair is growing in.... that is one way..... HTH....lael
 
i just saw this post and wanted to chime in....i will be 40 on december 19th, and i am not dreading it a bit. i truly believe age is a number in your mind, and for me, 40 is nothing to be afraid of. my twenties were about having fun and being carefree, but also being confused about who i was....as a result, getting married for all the wrong reasons (my happiness was like a house of cards that eventually fell down), my thirties were about getting to know myself and realizing there was more to life than i was living, at 35, i decided to take my life back and be true to myself.....i got divorced, and i can remember it like it was yesterday, a huge weight just fell off my shoulders that i didn't even know i was carrying....i started being true to me, and i realized that i like myself.....the thirties have been such a liberating decade for me, and with each year, i have become more comfortable in my skin...i have spent this decade letting go of anger, bitterness and resentment as i believe these emotions are what you start to wear on your face as you get older...i so look forward to my forties, fifites and so on....i truly believe that my forties will be the best decade ever, and i cannot wait to start them....
 
Another 30+ year old here

I am 37 and to be honest with all of you this is the best I have ever felt in my whole life I never grew up having self esteem and today I love myself.

I have many many people tell me "Wow I am younger than you and wish I could look half as good as you." I do have good genes #1, I take care of myself and I love life and I think that helps. I wish I could have the dimples sucked out of my butt that have crept up but I throw on a pair of undies and shorts (pants) whatever and think to myself well nobody sees that part at least I can cover it up and move on.
 
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