Why isn’t there a book on middle aging? There is a book to explain to us where we come from, what happens during puberty, all sorts of books on when we start having sex, books about what to expect when we are expecting and books about what to expect before we die. Nothing in the middle. There is about 30 to 50 years of uncovered territory there. And I need to know now because most of this is a mystery to me.
Sure they tell us about short arm disease and there are books and magazines devoted to telling us what to do while we are middle aged, like buying that red convertible or having an affair, but where are the books that explain the other things?
I understand why we don’t tell potential parents about parenthood. I understand that if we told potential parents that they wouldn’t get eight hours of sleep, in one night, again for the next 18 years they wouldn’t bother having kids. I understand that if we explained to them the worry that fills our brains ever day about our children they wouldn’t believe us. I understand that if we told them their house and their belongings would never be as they liked them again and that they would never have any money no matter how many hours they slaved they wouldn’t want to bring the next generation to life. I understand that if we were to tell them that they would lose all intelligent thought for the next two decades they would laugh at us and say we were crazy. I get that. It’s important to keep that information from the under 20 crowd.
What I don’t understand is why keep the facts of aging from the aging? It isn’t as if we can avoid the process. Why didn’t anyone tell me that my joints would start to ache before it rains and that when I kneel down to help my child tie her shoe she has to help me get back up? Why didn’t anyone tell me that my hearing would stop being selective after a while and I would have to constantly say “what?” when the person talking to me is five feet away? I’d like to know where all the veins came from on my hands? They were never there before. Where did the fat on my legs go? They used to be sort of shapely and now they are just skinny and undefined. I know where the fat went, it’s on my ass and around my middle but why did it decide to go north when everything else has gone south?
I expect a few gray hairs, I have been plucking them out from my head for years. One here and one there. The other morning I looked in the mirror and saw what I thought was a grey hair on my temple. I plucked it out only to find that there was another one. And another one. I plucked out ten grey hairs that were not there the night before. How does this happen? And no one, no one, ever mentioned anything about grey pubes.
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I had not heard about the grey pubes before. I shall have to keep an eye out for those. :))
Be glad the grey didn’t start at 20 like it did for me. Grey pubes?lol That’s nothin’.
I have a full head of hair, but that’s only because I don’t pluck out the grey ones. If I plucked out all of my grey hairs there’d be about three brown ones left on my head. I prefer the status quo.
As to the pubes, it’s strange, but I’ve never really paid any attention to the color down there. Just a second while I step away from the window … Wow, they are still all brown. Not a single grey hair down there. I wonder why that is. Maybe a doctor could do some some transplants.
Not only do the pubes change color they also get thinner so less waxing, but by that age why bother?
Since I blew it on the last post this old goat will not comment today. She has already shown her age….*sigh*
I am a natural blond so any gray hair that I may have, doesn’t show up yet Nor does it show up on my pubes I think, but I would have to check that, I haven’t looked lately. All my fat is around my middle, so that is where my center of gravity is. I’m like an apple. If pushed over, I would just roll down hill. Other than that, I’m aging gracefully. Oh yes, except for those wrinkly hands and that turkey neck.
hey, is there a redheads blogging circle we can join? Or do we need to start one?
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I’m not the type to share THAT much information, but you got me on the grey hairs…well…you know….down there. I got a full shave when I had the hernia surgery a few weeks ago and whatever is coming in is grey. Ugh. And because I have to check the incision is the only reason I noticed it I guess. Sigh. It is hell to get old, isn’t it? It’s good to know I am not alone.
Oh geez, now I have to look at my pubes..thanks 🙂
Sigh, getting old. I am going through pretty much all the same things as you. On top of that, I am breaking out too. Grey hair and zits, does it get any worse?
Be honest, this was just a ploy to get us to all look at our pubes!
LOL!
You’re in good company. The gray hair thing makes me the most depressed. The day I have to start coloring, it’s all over. And so I pluck…..
I have been dying my hair since I was twenty six. The sorriest thing about our age is the men our age want someone who is younger. You know the ones that have no grey hair and their boobs don’t fall to the matress when they sleep on their backs.
I have tagged you Red, mainly because i keep my head shaved so I don’t have to look at the gray, and you have that picture of beautiful hair, and yes, i am envious. When your chest hair is gray and you’re only 47, it is a bummer.
So click on my name, read my blog, and do what you do.
please don’t kill me.
So true. What’s worse is you can’t prepare because it sneaks up on you in tiny little steps, then one day BANG! You throw out your back picking up a slip of paper.
That’s why I shave my pubes.
No grey hairs, plus my wiggly looks a little bigger.
I’m the only one who sees it, but whatever.
well, face it, for some women, younger men are all the better too, for many reasons:) it’s not like women are the only victims of aging:)… (although women as victims gets much more media play and so we have to take more brunt for it; after all it does keep us looking timid and weak)
No grey hair for me – it just goes automatically to white – starting from when I was 22! Actually, that’s about when I started “feeling old” anyway…. if you can imagine that.
Grey pubes,the perfect reason to shave it all!!
My wife keeps saying I have gray hair, but I keep denying it. I’ll keep denying it too until they put me in the coffin (hopefully another 40 years :).
Well it’s nice to know I’m not the only one.