Aging gracefully

 From Ladies Pass it On

THE ART OF AGEING GRACEFULLY

Think about it, you have EARNED this face.

Every line, a laugh shared.

Every wrinkle, a year survived.

Every age spot, a day that the sun shone on you.

Some women believe that as they age, they LOSE their

looks. Oh my friends how wrong this is.

A beautiful younger woman is a happy accident of nature

but a beautiful older woman?

She is a work of art.

The Japanese have a practice whereby they fill any 

broken objects with gold, believing that something which

is broken has earned its beauty and should be

celebrated and decorated rather than discarded.

I feel this way about women.

It took a long time to find out who you really truly are. A

long time. The acceptance that old age brings is freeing.

It brings with it peace and happiness.

Everyone knows, happiness looks good on us all.

Your body has been changing since the day you were

born and will continue till the day you depart. Ride with

it, accept it, embrace it. Be amazed by it.

Allow your face to represent your life, your stories, your

joys.

Why choose to be an older woman fervently chasing

youth, when you could be that older woman who knows

what she is worth and has earned every minute of her

hard-won self-acceptance.

The trick with ageing successfully, my friend, is to pay as

little attention to it as possible.

~Donna Ashworth