How did that happen?
A few more days, and I will be celebrating (?) my 60th
birthday. I rather think of it as the 2nd anniversary of my 30th,
but that is really cosmetic.
It is certainly time to be grateful. Grateful that I have
not been afflicted with one of those diseases that come out of nowhere and
profoundly change a person’s life. Grateful for all those years during which I
could learn that 90% of all worries never materialize; so I am now making
better use of my time. Grateful for the happenstance of my skin color and
ethnicity which works like an automatic door opener where others have to push.
Grateful that I changed my career 20 years ago and got
into the wellness industry. Without it, I may now be a manager at IBM (well,
maybe not), spending hours at my desk, making forecasts of supreme irrelevance
to anybody’s well-being, and collecting frequent flyer miles. I would also look
at retirement (if it had not already happened) and would be wondering what to
do with the rest of my life.
None of those worries for me. Even though I realize that
I am quite unemployable as a 60 year old woman (urgh! that sounds awful), I am
and will be my own boss. I am in an industry where experience actually counts,
and that includes life experience. Being 60 is not a mark against me but a
batch of honor.
Happy Birthday to me J
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