Saturday, 12 March 2011

77 And Ready For Anything

Hi!  I am just a regular golden oldie oldie of 77. Hey, what is age anyway?  It is only a number and one is as old as the young man one feels- so bring them on.  No seriously, society is very wrong to be so ageist. We still feel and think as a young person even if the body gets older and may not be able to do everything it used to. I get so furious when people put us into old age categories. My blood begins to boil and I want to show them just what we are made of.

I am therefore on a mission to change the way others think about me. I am incensed that despite my considerable accomplishments, energy and experience, my age and the assumptions that surround it, render me invisible and worthless to the mainstream.
So what have I got planned? Well I want to challenge these assumptions, and open up a dialogue, a forum and bring to the fore  all the issues, concerns and joys of being a person who just happens to be older.
I have always lived life to the full. Have been a wife, a mother of five, a children’s nurse, a teacher, a Primary School Principal, an Inspector of Education, an Education Lecturer as well as a house cleaner, washer upper in restaurants, a caterer. You name it- the list goes on and on. – oh, I’ve been there, done it  , and  Got the T shirt, the video and the DVD!

I want to encourage others to reveal their true selves and not put up with being restricted to the back room. We've got interests, needs, concerns,passions, challenges, disappointments, joys- the stuff of life still running through our veins, with all the shadows and light.So let's get talking, let's get sharing. Let's   find our voices and reveal who we are, and what we still want to do and what we have done.

I want to hear what what you feel,  what you have to say.

 I want to learn to fly, water-ski, paint, sculpt- and that is just for starters.

JOIN ME !

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