Women, it's time to age disgracefully

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i like the poem,YaYaJen. It made me laugh. Thanks.

I don't think Bronwen can know many people over the age of forty five. She has no idea!

I think that everyone feels some depression as they get older- generally I banish it but it comes back every so often. The writer is almost 39yrs and looking to be 40yrs where you can't pretend to be young. You can feel young inside but the world won't.
The thing that cheers me up is that everyone will experience it, if lucky- the alternative being death.
I don't let it stop me doing things - in fact it makes me more determined to have a go! I get very irritated by comments like one on another thread where someone says that self service machines in supermarkets are for the young!! I couldn't work out whether she was serious or not.

I like the poem too- I shall aim for it when I am old i.e if I get to 90+

I was pregnant when I was a year older than Bronwen.

Isn't it funny how, a year later, a thread can re-emerge? Suppose it was the deleted post that bumped it up!

The deleted post was in July, Ariadne...

I think sometimes members (possibly new ones) trawl old threads from the Forums list and post on ones that take their fancy!

I hadn't noticed it was 2014! My head is so last year!

I felt invisible in my 20s on occasion, for all the wrong reasons. My first career was in accountancy, not horticulture, and I was sent along to a dinner for the local chamber of commerce to represent the large company I worked for, as my boss's wife had a baby that day. I was seated at a table of middle-aged men who all looked at me briefly in disgust. It was pretty obvious they thought my boss had sent his secretary - yet most of us must be aware that secretaries can be pretty powerful and know lots of exciting titbits! Having long blonde curly hair and big boobs obviously eliminated all chance of my having any brains, as far as they were concerned, and at 25 I was nowhere near as confident as I was at 40. We were at least halfway through the meal before I was able to get a word into the conversation. I bet they would have treated a going male differently, but if it had been all ladies instead, they would have been drawing a young male out right from the start and teasing him. That dinner still rankles. But it made me very determined to introduce myself loudly after that when I met new people.

Young, not going!

Ah, thank you, Ana - hadn't noticed that. I was just idly pondering, as tends to be my wont!