CLM 180º We Have Earned the Right to Get Old -...

We begin our progressive coarse in life from birth and immediately start the aging process.

This process is usually celebrated and poignantly remembered along the way with birthday parties, festivities, and family get togethers. But somewhere along the line our journey of aging starts to align itself with a hazy negatively. Especially when we see the lines and wrinkles engrave their pathways upon our face, and gravity escalates its power changing our once subtle bodies into multiply sags, along with our flexible joints of youth now pained when used.

Aging somehow, against all possible hedge points, takes on a creeping unnatural appearance mentally and physically and most of us become combative warriors against its slow persistent onslaught.

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Lee P. Feb 11, 2009, 6:29pm EST

I love being old. Who would've thought it?

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Rose Lamatt Feb 11, 2009, 7:12pm EST

For some reason I don't think men grow old as a woman does. Wrinkles on a mans face makes them look weather beaten and handsome, but to a woman it's rivers of ages, all flowing downward. Just my own opinion. Men 'do' look better as they age.

Now is that a man's picture above my post? That's what I mean.
Rose Lamatt

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c.l.m. 180˚ Feb 12, 2009, 10:23am EST

... half heartedly agree with you Rose :)

but a what about the grace & love that reflects from a woman's face as she ages? men don't often aspire to that ... & truthfully have not seen too many women carrying that sign of age either. but would love to see it more!

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Linda M. Feb 12, 2009, 10:46am EST

The important thing is to enjoy what each phase of life has to offer, and then embrace the new things in the next phase you enter. I am actually enjoying being older. I know I have some wrinkles forming, and I really don't care what others think about that. Someone recently told me I now remind them of one of my great-aunts, and to me it was a supreme compliment. When I think of her, I do think of her as older and with her long silver hair put up on top of her head, but what I remember most is her smile and her independent character.

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c.l.m. 180˚ Feb 12, 2009, 11:27am EST

selah!

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Mary G. Feb 13, 2009, 3:31am EST

I think in some ways I'm getting wiser as I have aged. Its true that in my area nothing in wrong with men aging, but women spend a lot of money to look young. I refuse to look like either of my daughters, as silver hair is pretty.

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c.l.m. 180˚ Feb 13, 2009, 11:13am EST

congrats to all the commentors & comments ... it seems like the well balanced have left made their statements.

would like to hear from those who are misled by aging ... ??? we all have our days of fluctuation ...

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c.l.m. 180˚ Feb 13, 2009, 11:14am EST

aging? only on planet earth.

C.L. Mareydt 180º

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