HA HA HA HA HA! The left one is winning.... ha ha ha ha!

Suddenly I have noticed the wrinkling around my eyes, deeper impressions in my cheeks/around my mouth. What I dislike the most is the "tired" look under my eyes. Could be from being up at all hours of the night with kids...or ladies in labor. Go figure.

A little stiffness in the muscles, but I figure going back to yoga will take care of that and changes in the skin I'll do a detox flush and see what happens. I don't worry about it per se , but this is an ageist society and there's plenty of discrimination. It's a shame because in the UK you see realistic actors on tv. They're allowed to age more gracefully. I don't live there, but nobody seems to worry about things like that.

It's not just the sags that are showing up, or the bags under my eyes that never go away and the gray ponytail, it's the old (and new for that matter) injuries that are piling up. From the work-related to surfing and bouncing off of reefs in Hawai'i, skating pools in the 70s and dropping cliffouts on a snowboard in the 80s and 90s-and last season for that matter but they were small cliff dropoffs, okay? Add in twenty-five years in karate, the injuries caused in real fights...or being kids and all the falls bumps bruises and breaks just learning HOW to work this body while you're growing into it and shit damn there is a lot of accumulated usage going on! Damn body is showing signs of definitely wear and tear and I HATE IT.

Sorry, but it's true. I remember my grandparents saying the same thing and thinking damn that'll be me one of these days. Well, them days have arrived and it's all downhill from here. I detest the downward slide I see going on. As far as I'm concerned, I have no problem blasting through trees in deep powder all day, or hiking to a 10,000 foot peak and dropping 3,000 feet in four miles back to where we parked the car. Paddling out on a reef and riding waves for hours and hours. Or throwing a jump spinning heel-hook kick at BOB the body opponent bag in my karate studio. I can't do those kicks anymore.

Now I see why the average age of death prior to WWII was 49, and it was 39 when George Washington was alive and smoking pipeloads of hemp on his plantation front porch! They wore out their bodies much faster than us since they beat the hell out of them more. But it all catches up eventually no matter how good the medical science or diet or exercise. The one thing that makes a difference is genetics. Some people have heart attacks in their 20s and it's an inherited trait. Some people live to be 90 and completely in senile dementia while their best friend from childhood is out playing tennis with a mind sharp as a knife.

This ripped clavicle injury last December has hit me very hard, especially since being almost 55 means very slow healing. Nothing heals quickly any longer. And living alone in the mountains with all the physical work that always needs to be done during the warm season hasn't helped because of having to push it probably earlier than I should have. I'm still short on firewood this year and it is snowing on the peaks around me....

Me, I, the one that is conscious and thinking say to myself: "Oh hell yes I can do that no problem I've always been able to do that." Then of course I get the "Oops" from my lower lumbar, saying: "No fucking way you idiot." I can still do them, truly I can. It's just this temporary body that is giving me this pesky trouble. My granny was right. Getting old sucks.

Exio.. . Also, it doesn't take too many drinks to make me feel pretty useless the next day... wasn't that long ago that I'd party until the wee hours, sleep for a few hours, then get up and go about my day.

I can so related!!!!!!!!!!!

oh i'm convinced it's my arteries. it did in almost everybody in my family in one way or another.

Gosh..where do I start! ..but I think the worse is my skin...wrinkles & dryness. I won`t though resort to surgery or any cosmetic works. Though I do ask myself at times is that because you can`t afford it, rather than standing up for my natural ageing??!!
Also have`nt the stamina I had some years ago..sixty is looming now in a few months.
You know I never really gaveany thought to getting old, it just seemed to appear when I wasn`t looking maybe.
Also noticed that people listen less to you & look less at you than they did when I was more sexually attractive. Shame, it seems that others may think that its contagious or something!

If I had known I was going to live this long I would have taken better care of myself.... no joke...!

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