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Dufflyn Lammers's avatar

Just what I needed to hear today. Like spookily. Thank you Anna!

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Lisa's avatar

I love this. I love you created art of the experience of it all. We need more stories like this for women who are aging to exchange notes. For younger generations to not be afraid of it. To demystify it. I wish I had the youthful vibrance and wide eyed expectancy and bouncy optimism of my youth but no way in hell I would ever want to go back to that. I’m happy more mature, perhaps a tad bit slower if I let myself be honest. But waaaay more in my own skin. I’ll take that even if it comes with a side of few wrinkles to remind me of my mortality.

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Anna David's avatar

ohhhh "a few wrinkles to remind me of my mortality" is a brilliant turn of phrase...

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sherri jane margolin aka durga's avatar

Thank you, Anna. I’m 71 and everyday I ask myself when I’m going to really “start” my life and chastise myself for all the things I’m not doing “right”. I suppose if I keep that up I will never get anywhere except staring down at my own grave one day wondering where it all went.

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Anna David's avatar

I love this. Today is the day. Because why not?

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Christine Morrison's avatar

Writing about the merits of aging — now you’ve hit my love language. On the cusp of 56, I couldn’t be more pleased that, despite it taking far longer than even you expected, my book is finally going to publish at the start of next year and it’s the journey to get here that’s brought me everything. Whatever happens once it’s in readers hands is gravy.

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Hieronymus Hawkes's avatar

I turned 60 this year. Most days I feel good and forget I'm not 35, my residual self-image, with still a little bit of hair on my head instead of my chin. Then I pass a mirror. On the planet 60 can we get rid of mirrors? LOL

Great piece!

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Hieronymus Hawkes's avatar

I also had my trainer tell me I'm in great shape, "for someone of my age." =)

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Chris ❤ 🏳‍🌈 (CDN) he/him 50+'s avatar

But surely there is a problem with planets. Is it biological age? Emotional ? Imagined ? Intellectual ? Spiritual ? And I still don't really understand the why of it all. Embarrassment? Longing? Regret? Would the young agree for the sake of fear and disgust at what their youth might become ? And would the televisions show channels of reality programming from alternate planets? The young and restless watching the bold and beautiful, the 30 somethings beautifuls watching the golden girls, the aged watching the youth and laughing and tut tutting? Longing and regretting? Or do we get the point of view from within an urn or beneath six feet of dirt hugged by our pine box ?

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Anna David's avatar

The planet plan needs a lot of work. They say there are no bad ideas but they may be wrong in this case.

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Chris ❤ 🏳‍🌈 (CDN) he/him 50+'s avatar

No no. Just a few tweaks ... it could be a script for next black mirror season ;)

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