Comments on: Body image: Are we looking forward to aging? http://silverandgrace.com/body-image-are-we-looking-forward-to-aging Wed, 16 May 2012 17:51:46 -0400 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Eliza http://silverandgrace.com/body-image-are-we-looking-forward-to-aging/comment-page-1#comment-1079 Eliza Thu, 06 May 2010 22:46:03 +0000 http://silverandgrace.com/?p=1433#comment-1079 @Susan - welcome! I let my hair go completely gray at the age you are now. It was so incredibly freeing. I don't look in the mirror and see gray hair. I look in the mirror and see my natural wild Irish curls, which I have come to love. Oddly the lines on my face don't bother me, but my hands really do. Strange that, eh? I keep thinking my hands look really old, and yet they do so much for me, so I try and honour them. I used to be fearful of being restricted in old age by a walker or wheelchair, but I have my cousin as a role model. He's my age (47) and has been in a wheelchair since a diving accident at the age of 27. He lives alone and travels all over the world, quite often unaccompanied by an assistant. We plan on having wheelchair races at age 90. That being said, like you, I take care of my body to keep it strong for as long as possible. And if my parents are any example, I'll stick be kicking butt for a good long time yet :-) @Susan – welcome! I let my hair go completely gray at the age you are now. It was so incredibly freeing. I don’t look in the mirror and see gray hair. I look in the mirror and see my natural wild Irish curls, which I have come to love. Oddly the lines on my face don’t bother me, but my hands really do. Strange that, eh? I keep thinking my hands look really old, and yet they do so much for me, so I try and honour them.

I used to be fearful of being restricted in old age by a walker or wheelchair, but I have my cousin as a role model. He’s my age (47) and has been in a wheelchair since a diving accident at the age of 27. He lives alone and travels all over the world, quite often unaccompanied by an assistant. We plan on having wheelchair races at age 90. That being said, like you, I take care of my body to keep it strong for as long as possible. And if my parents are any example, I’ll stick be kicking butt for a good long time yet :-)

]]> By: Eliza http://silverandgrace.com/body-image-are-we-looking-forward-to-aging/comment-page-1#comment-1078 Eliza Thu, 06 May 2010 22:37:17 +0000 http://silverandgrace.com/?p=1433#comment-1078 @Lori - ah yes, guilt. Had a lot of that I was carrying around. In particular Mom Guilt. After many tearful conversations with my children once they were young adults, I was able to let that go. Whew! What a big load off that was! As for facial hair, it is now part of my daily routine to check for hair that has no business being where it is. :-) @Lori – ah yes, guilt. Had a lot of that I was carrying around. In particular Mom Guilt. After many tearful conversations with my children once they were young adults, I was able to let that go. Whew! What a big load off that was! As for facial hair, it is now part of my daily routine to check for hair that has no business being where it is. :-)

]]> By: Susan Liddy http://silverandgrace.com/body-image-are-we-looking-forward-to-aging/comment-page-1#comment-1077 Susan Liddy Thu, 06 May 2010 20:45:30 +0000 http://silverandgrace.com/?p=1433#comment-1077 1 thing I am looking forward to as I age is the ease at which I can carry myself. It will certainly get to the point where no matter what, I will look "older", have wrinkles, and grey hair. and, there is something about that which cries out to me. At that phase of my life, I will "have to let go" of the struggle to look a certain way. That actually brings me peace and today at age 42, I strive to embrace that "letting go" now as I maintain my health and natural beauty. 1 think I am not looking forward to as I age are the aches and pains. The thought of one day being say, 90, and having to use a walker or being wheel chair bound. So, today I do my best to make good choices... eat healthy, drink lots of water and exercise so that I can travel the world when I'm older and enjoy a vibrant old age. 1 thing I am looking forward to as I age is the ease at which I can carry myself. It will certainly get to the point where no matter what, I will look “older”, have wrinkles, and grey hair. and, there is something about that which cries out to me. At that phase of my life, I will “have to let go” of the struggle to look a certain way. That actually brings me peace and today at age 42, I strive to embrace that “letting go” now as I maintain my health and natural beauty.

1 think I am not looking forward to as I age are the aches and pains. The thought of one day being say, 90, and having to use a walker or being wheel chair bound. So, today I do my best to make good choices… eat healthy, drink lots of water and exercise so that I can travel the world when I’m older and enjoy a vibrant old age.

]]> By: Lori Hoeck http://silverandgrace.com/body-image-are-we-looking-forward-to-aging/comment-page-1#comment-1076 Lori Hoeck Thu, 06 May 2010 16:18:59 +0000 http://silverandgrace.com/?p=1433#comment-1076 Name one thing you are looking forward to as you age: Less guilt and more personal power Name one thing you are not looking forward to as you age: Facial hair Name one thing you are looking forward to as you age: Less guilt and more personal power

Name one thing you are not looking forward to as you age: Facial hair

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