Sadhvi
Well maybe I still can’t figure out what I like about being over 50, but here are some women who had no trouble saying what they like and dislike about it. Take a moment to read what I find interesting about these beautiful women over 50…it’s good to know there are so many of us out there!
Adele
Adele, who turned 88 on November 24th said, “The best thing about being older is that I have the freedom to do anything I want, and at anytime. For example if I want to play the piano at 11:00 at night I can and do because there is nobody who can say no!
And what I like least about being an older woman over 50? Well, it’s a very small thing but when I wake up in the morning there’s nobody to say good morning to. I miss that. Especially since my dog Missy died in 2007″.
Annice
Annice says, “What I like best about being a woman over 50 is the realization that I have so many choices in life and that “no” is a complete sentence – and it looks like this: No. What I like the least about being over 50 is realizing how short life really is and how fragile it is.”
Betty
Betty says, “What I love about being over 50 is the fact that I like myself the way I am, regardless! What I don’t like about being over 50 is the fact that four decades of varying levels of activism have not resulted in much of the change I want to see happen.”
- Guitele
Guitele says, “What I like best about being over 50 is my sense of self, feeling self-actualized, and what I I like least are the changes in my body.”
- Jane
Jane says, “I like the fact that I no longer care what people think about me—at least most people! And I like the fact that I no longer have to color my hair but can just be grey. I also like being friends with women who have been through a lot, suffered a lot, but kept their positive outlook on life. I like—and sometimes dislike– not being noticed by men. It’s a lot less stressful, even though I can wax nostalgic about the old days at times. Like Yvette, I like having grown children and getting to know them for themselves instead of as “my children.” I like being married to Tom for 27 years now. And what I dislike is having wrinkles on my face, but I’m trying to change my attitude about that. After all, each of those wrinkles was well earned! I don’t like the fact that many of the people who were very important to me in my childhood and youth –whom I would love for my children to know firsthand—are no longer walking on this earth. I wish we could somehow get the generations all living together at the same time—but I’m hoping for a “meeting in the air!”
Dr. Judith King-Calnek
Dr. Judith King-Calnek answers, “What I like best about being a woman over 50 is that I feel so comfortable in my own skin. I feel like a mellow glass of red wine, it just feels good. What I like least? Ah, vanity! I guess it’s those patches of gray hair (although I’m trying hard to embrace them because I think women with silver hair are beautiful), and that my face doesn’t have that tight skin that it once did”.
Priya
Priya says, “What I like most about being a woman over 50 is that being a disciple of Osho I’ve always felt a sense of freedom, but now aging has afforded me an even greater sense of freedom from social mores. And what I like least about being over 50 is that my attachment to the physical beauty of this earth is being tested in that I know I am going to have to let go of the physical plane sooner than later.”
