20 Reasons I Like Getting Older
When I graduated from high school (looooooong time ago) I was SCARED to become an adult. Really really scared. I imagined that being a grown up was something that I would never be able to successfully pull off. The finances, the relationships, the responsibility… all of it just freaked me out.
Something my dad said to me always stuck. I’m sure he was more than a little frustrated with my seemingly irrational fears about leaving home to go to school. He said “Try being an adult. You’ll like it!”
Well, turns out my dad was right. Although it took me awhile to get the hang of it, eventually I did become an adult and I really do like it!
Getting older gets such a bad rap. People are constantly trying to look young,feel young, and act young. While I can understand the obsession, I have found there are some really great things that come with age. Why not have gratitude for those things, instead of constantly wishing for the “good old days”?
Here are a few of the things I am talking about (By the way, I am 34, and aging every day).
20 Things I Like About Getting Older
- Knowing what I like
- Knowing what I don’t like
- Comprehending intellectually and emotionally that the zit in the middle of my cheek is not the end of the world.
- Having a sense of my spirituality; no longer needing to question and test my beliefs constantly. They are comfortable and they are mine.
- Having a basic idea who the significant players are going to be for the rest of my life
- Knowing what looks good on me (haircuts, clothing, makeup, etc.)
- Being friends with my parents
- Being friends with my siblings
- Knowing who my true friends are
- Having compassion for those in pain, because I have felt it
- Knowing that family never goes away,and those ties only get stronger with time
- Being embarassed much less frequently, and easily, than when I was young
- Looking back at my life and seeing the purpose in things that didn’t make sense before
- Realizing that fruit really is good on salad
- Being a mom, teaching my kids the things I have learned
- Being in charge of myself
- Being a wife, having another grown up that shares my life and responsibilities. Being able to spend a wild weekend in Vegas with my husband, without anybody raising an eyebrow
- Directing my own life
- Making my own choices
- Deciding what is for dinner every night
While I am sure there are things I have missed that belong on this list, I think you get the point.
What are some things you are enjoying about getting older (it is happening to us all!)
October 1st, 2007 at 10:41 pm
I don’t like to be old, but you are right making my own choices is one of the gifts I have; however my kids are very good to persuade me to choose what they want.
October 4th, 2007 at 8:15 am
I like that I know so much more about myself…and if I need to know more, then it’s up to me and me only to figure that stuff out.
October 4th, 2007 at 7:07 pm
I’m almost 50…in fact, I’m blogging my way to the big 5-0…and it is great…after all these years I’m finally coming into my own…and I really like who I’ve become.
You are still young…you’re not getting old…just getting better.
Judi
ayearto50.blogspot.com
October 4th, 2007 at 10:42 pm
The author Madeleine l’Engle wrote something like this: “the best part of growing older is that you don’t lose all the ages you have been”.
October 11th, 2007 at 6:30 pm
“getting old is like waiting hours in line for the Indiana Jones ride at Disneyland only to realize that the line was for the bathroom.”
- the food inspector
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