Here Comes Amazing You

Excerpt 4 from "Here Comes Amazing You

"We are not supposed to go out by ourselves to a restaurant or

a movie or travel alone because being alone is not supposed to

be a good thing. When our children leave we are supposed to

wait to have a grandchild, which makes us pressure our kids to

have children so that we can be fulfilled again. We are supposed

to live near our families or live with them as we age. Most of us

are indoctrinated by our friends and families to follow the rules

of society. Therefore, most people as they age will not venture

outside their own comfort zone, thinking there is nothing new

or exciting ahead.

When you catch yourself saying, should, ask yourself how

you would feel about the situation if you simply dropped that

word. Many times, just by doing that, you’ll feel better about

the situation. When we are forty or fifty we are supposed to

cut our hair and change the way we dress: no more minis or

bikinis. If we divorce we are supposed to go out and find a new

spouse, and the sooner the better. We women are not supposed

to be alone or independent. How many times have I heard an

admirer say to me, “Why are you alone?” What an annoying,

degrading question!

A friend once asked me, “What is good about old age?

Nothing, she said.” To me, there is only one thing that’s not

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good about old age and that is getting closer to the inevitable.

If we take care of ourselves and are blessed with good health,

old age can be a wonderfully interesting period of life. We can

get the answers to questions that might have frustrated us for

a long time. Problems we thought insurmountable suddenly

are no longer unsolved mysteries. We can create, love, live and

teach others some of the tricks we have learned. We are living

longer and healthier than any past generation and we are here

to stay for a much longer stretch; living to one hundred is no

longer a rarity. We can learn to live a more simple life.

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