Midlife’s A Trip

The O Word

Posted on 23. Feb, 2008 by Karen in Misc

Are you getting to the point where you don’t want to think about, let alone say the “o” word?  You know the word I’m talking about–it’s not Oprah.  It’s the concept we don’t want to embrace as part of life’s experience.  Well, I’ll say it:

Old.

Old.

Old.

Old.

There I got it out.  Getting old is that inevitable next step after the journey through midlife, if we’re lucky.  But as a society, we tend to ignore old, mask it and even Botox it with the hopes that we can minimize the impact instead of celebrating the joy of getting there.

I was inspired when I learned about a group of women who formed the Older Women’s Legacy (OWL) Circle to celebrate growing old by writing and publishing their memoirs.  Check them out and see if you can discover a new perspective on what we should all hope we get to after our midlife trip.

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