| Almost 50 and starting to hate mirrors
Posted: 4/22/2008 9:59:45 AM | Dear Mr almost 50.
Your problem is not the hardware but the software.
You are running the same software as when you were much younger.
With the age should comes wisdom , acceptance, gratitude, contentment and so on.
Don't forget that many people don't arrive to their thirties not mention the millions of children dying in the third world country and many enslaved adults throughout their entire life.
So you are doing really well it is just a matter of updating your software.
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| Almost 50 and starting to hate mirrors
Posted: 4/29/2008 6:57:00 AM | do sooo agree seaZ........
i no longer compare my insides with others outsides
my notion of beauty now comes from the spirit
i experience life differently than in youth
am enjoying what life has to offer
your words are full of wisdom...
and am soooo grateful
that i understand...
rose. | |
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| Almost 50 and starting to hate mirrors
Posted: 4/29/2008 2:34:34 PM | Mirrors don't bother me as much as the damn head shots I just had to have taken.
Man, I HATE digital cameras. Especially big ass ones with giant lenses pointed right in my face.
Opening that disc just depressed the hell out of me.
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| Almost 50 and starting to hate mirrors
Posted: 4/30/2008 12:11:51 PM | There is something to be said about maturity and aging. Would I rather be younger with no Gray? Yes but would I want to be 20 something again? nope.
OP you could see about having something done a face lift or possibly a new hair style that might help you look younger just a thought. | |
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| Almost 50 and starting to hate mirrors
Posted: 5/3/2008 12:51:16 AM | Well, maybe the mirror isn't the "friend" it once was but ...
The Mirror©
Sunshine shoots through the windows and fills the house with grace,
Ricochets around the room and finds my weathered face.
Standing at a mirror I see refracted light
On wrinkles, lines and eyes of mine reflected to my sight.
The youth that once looked back at me
Has gone – I know not where – in vain I search the glass, and find: No … it isn’t there.
Instead I see the wrinkles – they are stress of many years
Produced by times of doubt and my unfounded fears.
My eyes see lines and furrows as they track across my face
Hard times are buried there as my eyes complete the trace.
At the corners of my eyes I see a pair of old “crows feet”
They’re etched there forever from those times my life was sweet.
A lifetime full of memories comes bouncing off the glass
A memory consumes me - as I feel still more time pass.
In the Winter of a lifetime, ‘tis memories that come to stay
Oh, thank God I have them – pray they never go away.
I turn from my glass mirror – that used to be my friend
As thoughts of those reflections I try to comprehend.
My face it is my diary of experience I’ve had
And then I tell myself: “You know … those lines …
they really aren’t so bad.”
j. hogan clark - 2001 | |
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| Almost 50 and starting to hate mirrors
Posted: 5/3/2008 5:36:39 PM | While having a skin cancer screening, I told the doc, "I never realized I would come to hate my skin so much!" And I don't like it at all -it's wrinkly, has brown spots, falls here and there...but as a "feminazi" I totally resent the opinions that women were taught by the feminists to look like construction workers - nothing could be further from the truth! What we taught was to be comfortable with who you are and make your own decisions as to who that person is and if that includes makeup, styled hair, so be it, just don't want to be judged as a piece of meat instead of a warm, giving loving human being. I do not like getting older and my appearance, but it sure beats the alternative and I can be oh-so-grateful I am not lying in a burn unit somewhere, dying from skin cancer or merely surviving on a few grains of rice per day - it's all in one's perspective as to what is and what is not important. We all age, like it or not...  | |
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| Almost 50 and starting to hate mirrors
Posted: 5/4/2008 5:37:01 AM | You had better be loving or at leas liking the way you look now .... add another 10 years on ...
**Full blown depression ...**
So love the skin your in. | |
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| Almost 50 and starting to hate mirrors
Posted: 8/23/2008 2:20:10 PM | I get up and look in the mirror ... There is this old wrinkly ugly person/thing there ... The mirror cRaCkS a little more ... The neighborhood dogs start hOwling and my dog CRIES ... 
Ya have to have a sense of humor about it ... Its life ...
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| Almost 50 and starting to hate mirrors
Posted: 8/23/2008 4:04:56 PM | Hi there is only one alternative to getting older, many have not made it so enjoy where we are and move on. We are better as we get older, much wiser too!! | |
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| Almost 50 and starting to hate mirrors
Posted: 8/23/2008 4:43:46 PM | 50 years old is not crucial," I believe that beauty first before age." I am 56 years old and I thank God that I reach this age because not every one is lucky to reach this age. Beauty is not really, on the smoothness of facial or greying hair and bikini body but the kindness ,compassion to others and a passion for life. The wisdom that I gathered on my years makes me tranquil,loving,wise and appreciate what the providence hand to me. Ps my photos was taken 3 months ago | |
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| Almost 50 and starting to hate mirrors
Posted: 8/23/2008 4:43:59 PM | | 50 years old is not crucial," I believe that beauty first before age." I am 56 years old and I thank God that I reach this age because not every one is lucky to reach this age. Beauty is not really, on the smoothness of facial or greying hair and bikini body but the kindness ,compassion to others and a passion for life. The wisdom that I gathered on my years makes me tranquil,loving,wise and appreciate what the providence hand to me. Ps my photos was taken 3 months ago | |
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| Almost 50 and starting to hate mirrors
Posted: 8/23/2008 8:12:28 PM | I AM past 50 and figure if I made it this far then I made if for a reason. But I do agree with alot of the posts you got. Do things for you now. Whenever I hear a comment about someone approaching 50 I just tell them they are at the age where they should say "so what" to everything. We had our days at being young and firm and now its our age to say YEAH we made it! Just relish in the fact that you can laugh at how dumb some of these youngsters are. Get yourself a nice car, dye your hair and look around you. I guarnatee you there is another woman out there who is younger then you and going thru the same feelings, we all do. I just put the mirror in a different bedroom so i don't have to see myself til I am ready to go out. And NEVER go out without taking pride in yourself and looking good at least for you!!!!! | |
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| Almost 50 and starting to hate mirrors
Posted: 8/23/2008 10:28:15 PM | When I was in my teens and young adult years I hated the way I looked so deeply that I could not look in a mirror. My skin was smooth, my hair long and fair, my body slim. But I hated myself.
Today I am 50, and I see lines and contours reflected back at me from a mirror; signs of ageing that weren't there just a few short years ago.
But I CAN look in that mirror. And I no longer hate myself.
I guess it's all a matter of perspective. | |
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| Almost 50 and starting to hate mirrors
Posted: 8/24/2008 12:32:40 AM | | I've had a love-hate relationship with mirrors for as long as I can remember....ah, well...don't think it's ever gonna change....there is something about growing old with grace and your face reflecting all the life experience you've had, then again, getting old sucks! | |
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| Almost 50 and starting to hate mirrors
Posted: 8/24/2008 1:12:22 AM | I LOVE All OF YOU OLD WRINKLEY PEOPLE!!!!
Didnt we all wonder if our Butts were too Big?? No Poblem now we have 2 butts, one in back and one in front.
Didnt we all (girls) hollar at our Moms My Pony Tail Is TOO TIght Now We would love to have hair long enough to pull it back to pull out the wrinkles.
We started in diapers.. Yep we will end up that way.
Ive never won the war with the mirror,,anyway that I turn it doesnt look right..
Just for the record, I work out 6 days a week, I do physical labor, I dress appropriatly, I have manners, brush my teeth.. have manners and dont judge others..
Because I know how much trouble I go through , I dont need to add to anothers.
Stevelfun: Love the Ibuprofen,,,Yeah BABY!!! Just waitin for the GERITOL to kick in..
Want a good laugh,,get 2 mirrors, so you can see front and back..You might want some tequilla first And the threading thing..How many threads can you get at one time..is it only for you face????? Other parts need love tooo!!!!!
THanks OP this was GREAT... I havent laughed this hard all day... | |
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| Almost 50 and starting to hate mirrors
Posted: 8/24/2008 5:50:38 AM |
Didnt we all (girls) hollar at our Moms My Pony Tail Is TOO TIght Now We would love to have hair long enough to pull it back to pull out the wrinkles.
Omigosh, yes...that is so true!  | |
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| Almost 50 and starting to hate mirrors
Posted: 8/24/2008 6:12:37 PM | | I don't have any problem looking in the mirror. I like the person I see. If you don't see the beauty in yourself, no one else will either. Wrinkles, gray hair and all ... we are all beautiful!! | |
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| Almost 50 and starting to hate mirrors
Posted: 8/24/2008 7:30:57 PM | My new line is "50" is the new "30"..
I never let a number rule me but I have to say as 5o approaches this year. I am determined to not let it bother me.
Keep smiling at the mirror YOUR only as young as you feel...:)
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| Almost 50 and starting to hate mirrors
Posted: 8/25/2008 7:48:52 AM | I am a 52 almost 53 year old male. I have gray hair. So what...age is only a number if you think old guess what... you become what you think. Last year I made the Summit Climb on Mt Rainier. The year before I hiked the Appalacian Trail 1024 miles. I ride motorcycles east coast to west each year as part of the Iron Butts run. I still feel like I'm in my mid 20's. I think some do age as part of their genetics but not all age as fast as others. My mother is 85 and I have to pick up the pace just walk with her. I've dated women 27 years younger than me and felt as if I were younger than them.
So don't hate the mirror, it's you enjoy what you have because this is it. And don't let a little sign of experience slow you down. | |
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