What Turning 50 Should Mean

Turning 50 is always seen as a milestone in a womans life. But what should turning 50 really mean? It may be a total different thing for every woman in particular, but this age must be a beginning of another true self. When I turned 50, which happened just a year ago, I remember that it took me a lot of time, even before reaching it, to think about it. I started looking at my friends, all women in their 50s, and I came to a conclusion: that 50 is the age of full maturity, when you no longer feel entrapped in the same routine as before.

I started to think about myself in a different way, I started to allow myself to think differently, and I began feeling better as a whole new person, starting to live at 50. Instead of looking at turning 50 as at a downbeat event, I treated it in the opposite manner, as an event that will change my life for the better.

There is an interesting thing that happens while you grow older. You seem to take everything lighter than before. I was pretty much concerned with the way I looked in front of others, with the way they saw me, I was always trying to talk right, to dress right, or to do right. But all these things were, in a way, imposed to me, from the outside; once I realized that I was turning 50, my attitude had changed for the better.

I was no longer so afraid that what I said, or did, would impress the others in a negative way. But I did not do all this by my own; I had my friends, which I saw enjoying their 50 years of age, without any negative feelings. I want to give you a piece of advice: dont celebrate your 50th birthday alone bring in your friends for a fun and unforgettable celebration.

As my personal experience was so similar with that of my friends turning 50, I wondered if this is shared by other women, too. This way I found out the Red Hat Society for women in their 50s or older is especially interested in promoting something that is called acting your age. In a way, 50 sounds indeed like a milestone, because, as we think that virtually people may live up to 100, we are in the middle of our existence, the moment when we should decide what to do with the rest of our lives. Instead of looking at the empty half, try see it this way, as I did: the experience that we gathered during our 50 years of life will help us lead another 50 full of hope and fulfillment. It is inevitable to think about death, under such circumstances, yet, this is not the point, as we all have many, many years to live and to live them well and how we deserve.

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