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serenity blaze
Member Empyrean

since 2000-02-02

Posts 27738

0 posted 2001-06-13 06:13 AM

I don't know how to explain this--but I am a sort that embraces the obverse--and I LIKE turning forty.
I like the biblical symbolism of it--I like the rituals I am wittingly or unwittingly participating in...I do enjoy the fact that it did INDEED stop raining for my b'day. Perversely? I like it ALL. I like the way the gray has grown into my hair---highlights of tinsel to swoop and curl around my face---sue me--I LIKE it.

I don't mind the tiny lines and wrinkles. And the big ones? Hey...I don't have to look...and yet at the same time, don't ask me to erase a memory to please a line of your palette. Don't ask me to overwash the opaque, or dwell too long in a charcoal's shadow. Don't tell me that beauty is a coveted dream of anorexia--and that clothes should hang on a woman with the same finesse as a wire hanger. Don't tell me happiness is found in the hand-carved ivory bowl of a pipe. Well...don't ask me for a light, not right now, anyway.

So many variables of life--why even now attempt to choose? How many sums reduce to PI? (forgive me, I left school too soon...)

see? I am thinking in rhyme.

catalinamoon

Member Rara Avis

since 2000-06-03

Posts 9543
The Shores of Alone

1 posted 2001-06-13 09:27 AM

Serenity, this is how I want to feel about life and getting older. I haven't quite made it. You are a hell of a role model

Bet you never thought that, hm?
Sandra
PS, How do you feel about 47 LOL

Decaflame
Senior Member

since 2001-05-11

Posts 1635

2 posted 2001-06-13 10:17 AM

Edging in on 50....it only gets better.....

White Wolf
Member

since 1999-09-18

Posts 371
Somewhere in the vast wasteland

3 posted 2001-06-13 01:31 PM

I am only twentyfour but the other day I had my hair cut and the stylist had cut my hair in such a way to cover my receeding hairline. I thought that it is kind of vain to try to cover up what God has given me. I relish in the fact that I will one day go gray and have those wrinkles beside my eyes like my father and grandfather. If I lose my my hair well so be it. Beauty will always shine through from the inside to the outside. So the way I see it I will and do enjoy growing older.

The White Wolf

If life is just a game, when does it end cause I want to get to what is real.

Dopey Dope

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Member Patricius

since 2000-08-30

Posts 11132
San Juan, Puerto Rico

4 posted 2001-06-15 11:37 PM

I am only 18.....I have no idea what you're talking about, but I do know that when I am 40 I will be able to say "Wow....so much done and so much more to do!"
I plan on living it up and being happy with whatever.....especially my looks

LoveBug

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Member Elite

since 2000-01-08

Posts 4697

5 posted 2001-06-17 01:25 AM

*Takes the bottle out of her mouth*

I'm 16!

But I hope that I can have the energy and joy you have when I'm your age... heck, I wish I had it now!!!

"Men judge generally more by the eye than by the hand, for everyone can see and few can feel."-Machiavelli

Lil_Aussie_Cutie
Junior Member

since 2001-04-28

Posts 45
Qld, Australia

6 posted 2001-07-06 08:55 PM

im 15 turning 16 this september....all i can say, is that i hope to have the same attitude u do when i hit 40 and also exceed it...ur character is inspiring.

Janelle aka miss cutie

Fading Away

Member Elite

since 2001-03-14

Posts 3131
Lynchburg, Virginia

7 posted 2001-07-17 09:41 PM

I hope I'm optimistic like that in 25 years when I hit 40. That's great that you have such a good attitude about it

Not many people have that mind frame. It's admirable.

--Marie

You think yourself a failure, but perhaps the biggest loss is winning...

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