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Ageism - Living in the Moment

1/11/2015

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My newest resolution is to “be” in the moment.  So much of my life has been focused on the past and the future and being still and aware in the moment has been a challenge.  Now, as I am writing this, I am feeling less pressure to go beyond this moment.  Writing has always been a centering for me, a way to choose my words in the present.  Perhaps that is why social media and texting are so important to society today.  Communicating, using the written word, stops me for a moment in order to collect my thoughts, which happens less when I am speaking in a stream of consciousness.  That is not to say that everything I write should be shared, nor is it, but it is in the moment of composition that I am truly focused on the moment.  That being said, I have been on the planet during the greatest technological advances in our ability to communicate the written word.  However, what is being communicated probably hasn’t changed that much in thousands of years.  The desire to be understood by and to understand others is at the root of all communication.  That is the purpose of my writing and this blog.  I want to connect the generations and affirm that regardless of our tools of communication, and, regardless of our race, creed, gender, sexual orientation or age, we can, if we are in the moment, communicate and understand one another.  Let me know your thoughts.
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Ageism - How Old is Old?

1/2/2015

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The longer I am on the planet, the more I realize that age, as with anything subjective, is relative.  We begin the aging process the second we are born but it doesn’t really impact us until we reach the age that we, ourselves, define as “old”.  I have reached that age several times during my seven decades but then decided to “kick the can down the road” to a new benchmark once arriving at what I had previously designated.  My first recalculation occurred at the age of 25.  I thought this was the beginning of the end having lived a quarter of a century!  I have to admit, once getting over that hump, no birthday has held as much significance but I still measure the decades with qualifiers.  For example, getting to my half century celebration gave me the satisfaction of knowing that I no longer had to try to work so hard at qualifying as “young” looking or acting but I could take it easy being on the young side as a  woman of a “certain age”.  Well, I have blown through that little facade and am now contemplating a three quarter century mark, still a few years away, but close.  I can only tell you that I still don’t know how old is old.  I thought I did several times until I reached the target I had designated in my own aging process.  If you are older than I am, you think I am young.  If you are younger, you think I am old and you will think that, until you get here.
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