As I enter the year 2011 I am acutely aware that in less than 10 months I will turn 50. So, what does this mean.. since I haven't been 50 before I turned to the oracle that is Google and this is what I learned: In Hebrew the letter Nun is given the numerical value 50. It represents freedom and fullness of life. 50 years of age before one has wisdom. According to one post on Yahoo: turning 50 means you're just old and closer to dying. When I started thinking about 2011 I decided that I would begin celebrating at what I assume was the date of my conception, January 9, 2011 and have a big party every month for 9 months with a grand finale on October 9th, if I lived that long after all those parties. So I have stepped back and decided my journey to 50 will go a little deeper than a monthly party. I mean really, life is definitely more than half over and I have had so much fun! But, maybe now it is time for me to settle down a bit and reflect.. that sounds so dull.
With all these questions and ideas swirling around in my head I have decided to start a blog about this journey and invite all my friends who are, for the most part, Libras who were also born in 1961 to join me in posting their wishes, goals and ideas for how to enter and live in the body of a 50 year old person. That sounds so... mature, not old, but very responsible.
I have some tools in place that I will begin using in January, they include: Exercise Motivation with Hypnosis, Stop Smoking with Hypnosis, Daily Self-Hypnosis for Great Health, and Weight Loss with Self-Hypnosis. Perhaps I will spend the first several weeks of January in a deep hypnotic state as I reprogram my not so healthy lifestyle of the past and prepare for the next 50. I am going to sign off for now and I will be back in January with anyone else who wants to join the journey. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!
50 isn't that bad! Great photo. We were there just a few days later.
ReplyDeleteFrom the vantage point of the 60's (both THE sixties and now my own personal sixties), fifty is a great entree into the best years. You will begin to notice how attractive older men and women are, and those sags and paunches begin to look endearing, even cute. Not on yourself or myself, of course, but other people's aging becomes the new norm and you will find yourself looking good again. Twenty and thirty year old faces begin to look babyish and unformed. And, of course, there is the relief of not being twenty or thirty anymore, of having figured out so many things and having paid your dues in so many ways. Your life becomes your own (unless you have difficult relatives.) By the way, this says that Ken is writing this but it's really Sandy using Ken's computer.
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