Gosh those 5 years went fast, and I am having a difficult time getting this birthday under my belt. So I’m venting!
I’m not happy with my face; it’s slipping into my neck. My hair is thinning and would rather grow on my chin than my head.
I can testify to ones earlobes and nose growing as I also continue to shrink in stature.
I pretend to hear most of what you said as long as I can read your lips.
My gym routine includes a ‘Balance’ class and I return the AARP cards that come in the mail with “Return to Sender”
Friends and family are getting bad diseases and passing away and wisdom leaves me when I don’t know what to say or how to be there for them. And I gasp when I hear how old someone is in the news, and then realize I’m older or only a few years away.
Granted, I’m EXTREMELY blessed and usually cheerful, but this birthday stinks.
But I’m rambling…must be my age 🙁
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Maybe if you hadn’t gone away from all your family, we could have put are arms around you and we could have made your birthday special….but maybe next year in Hawaii! 😉
speaking of people passing…did you see the news today that Larry Himmel passed away? http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/San-Diego-Broadcaster-Larry-Himmel-Dies-Cancer-281770371.html
made me smile today. 65 used to seem SO old. Now I just feel like a slightly older version of myself. Note I said – slightly. Keep on enjoying life and the people around you. We are still 18 ( or maybe 35) on the inside no matter what the outside looks like!
I really am a better version of my 35 year old self…it’s just that birthdays jolt you back to the reality of numbers…
Thoughts from your just turned 35 year old….
I will never have the body I had when I was 20. But I didn’t like it then either… so why did I waste so much time and ugly thinking wishing I was fitter, more youthful etc.
I will be 65 one day shortly and I will think back to when I was 35 and wish for things I had/was then… but again didn’t enjoy it when I was there.
As I see and hear of moms, grandmas, dying so young, I am so very grateful you are 65 with hair on your chin that’s slipping into your neck.
I also read somewhere (paraphrased)… Enjoy today, because it’s the youngest you’ll ever be.
Lastly, we live in a culture of narcissism… everyday we ALL need to fight it in our lives. You are beautiful because you fear the Lord. Hold onto that truth and embrace the AARP. Sometimes I wish for the senior discount!!
I hear you Debbie…somehow I feel I went from being 35 to 60…it goes so fast, but I really believe that 65 is the new 40 and if that’s the case just think where your earlobes will be when you hit the new 65 at 85!!
…do my ears hang low, do they wobble to and fro…