Let’s face it readers. Sometimes everyone around us may know it’s quitting time but duh, our own foolish pride blinds us into thinking our physical looks and body are still looking like the not over 25-year-old babes living in those glossy fashion magazines. Now men, I am mainly writing about women here because recently, my oldest son (living in his glorious 20 something year old years) clued me in very quickly when I nonchalantly asked him,

“So, dear, when are you planning on settling down?“

Without a hesitation I hear,

 ”Mom, unlike you women, us men have a VERY LONG SHELF LIFE!”

Allllrighty then.

You men can go on looking great over at the VERY LONG SHELF, thank you, very much!

So, on that thought, I went into a trance and meditation moment and here is what unfolded and naturally, since I am an aging woman, all the questions deal with this dilemma.

• When does an aging woman know when to quit wearing a bikini to the beach? How flabby? Does a little overweight count against you??
• When does an aging woman know when to quit coloring her hair? Do you have to wait until your face is full of those deep type of wrinkles or stop as soon as there are wrinkles around the eyes and forehead? What about the sagging jaw line? Should that be a good indicator to quit the color?
• And while on the subject of hair, when does an aging woman know when to cut the long 70′s hair-do?
• At what point, and I really need to know this, does an aging woman transition into looser (ugh) fitting jeans and t-shirts? This is just my theory but the looser you wear the jeans, the easier to gain weight because it seems the body wants the ‘mold around feel’ of the jeans. Just my theory. However, it doesn’t seem to work too much with the tighter tops….the boobs just wanna sag, period.
• When does a woman need to *sigh* put away her stiletto high heels?
• Make-up? You know it….when is it too much?? At what age does the shimmer all over the face and black rimmed eyeliner need to stop? When???

WELL,

here I am, sitting on the very SHORT shelf life and thinking like Janis Joplin when she said…
I won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.

Not quitting yet,however, once I get over my foolish pride and face the reality that’s in the mirror, I am going to follow this simple Robert Strauss rule on when to QUIT obsessing about physical looks….

“It’s a little like wrestling a gorilla.

You don’t quit when you’re tired – you quit when the gorilla is tired.”

Your gorilla tired yet?

Time for me to feed my gorillas so until tomorrow, meet you back here on the life shelf!

Sunshine

Credits & Inspiration:
Janis Joplin and Robert Strauss quotes from Brainyquote.com

Photos from Wikipedia

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