Sep 20 2008
Positive Thinking Over 50
Being Fit Over 50 isn’t just about controlling the number on the scale or being able to do 100 push-ups (yeah, right!). Being Fit Over 50 has a lot to do with our mental state of being as well. Actually, mental well being may be the most important aspect of the whole thing - without the right outlook everything else pretty much falls apart.
Fifty is an age of change on every level. We already know what 50 is doing to our bodies. But what about the fact that our family life may be changing - children are grown and have left home or are about to do so. For many, marriages that have been the primary relationship of adulthood have ended or been altered drastically. Our career path has a different feel to it as well. If we have never given the concept of retirement a thought in our lives, we may be looking at it, wondering how it will happen for us or even if it will ever happen at all.
These thoughts can be overwhelming. But, 50 has a lot going for it as well. Really, I mean it. Fifty is the opportunity to begin the next phase of life. Fifty is the perfect time to learn a new skill, develop a new relationship with your spouse or significant other, consider career changes, or pack up your life as you currently know it and move across the country and start fresh (okay, that’s probably a little wild for most of us).
Fit Over 50 isn’t just a place to complain and look for answers to our problems. Fit Over 50 is also a place to say, “Hey, World, Look at Me.” If you would like to brag about the latest adventure in your life, send an e-mail. Future posting will showcase some of the positive aspects that have come into our lives.
I appreciate there being an outlet for some of my feelings that I have been harboring for the last nine years. You see - I am now 59 years old and the way that I am exiting my fifties is 180 degrees different than when I entered in.
You see…by the time that I was fifty two I was already divorced twice. I had never been had such low self esteem in my life. I started to wonder if it was me who could not control my life and that I was only capable of making bad life decisions.
My life totally changed when I decided that I needed to try this marriage thing one more time. Eureka! It has been 7 years with my true soul mate. ( I was unable to use that phrase before). It is not only a wonderful coupling of two people, but I have been able to uncover the person that I always thought was within me that was not permitted to see the light of day before.
I can now feel good about going the next step and enjoying life like I never could before. YAH Fifties!!!!!!!!!!
I am a woman approaching sixty. I live alone, work full time and this summer I decided to finally write the novel that’s been bouncing around in my head for forty or so years. I am past the halfway point of the first draft. I have felt euphoric, despondent, happy angry and sad, sometimes within the same hour. Mostly I feel empowered. It’s not as easy as I thought it would be when I was twenty, but now I’m not too tired, or too bogged down with other responsibilities to actually accomplish my hearts desires. I will finish my book, lose fifteen pounds and march into my sixties happy, healthy and glad to be alive.