Aging


11.14.07 (7:21 pm)   [edit]

Aging



Sometimes I cant even keep promises to myself. I skipped blogging yesterday but I dont feel bad about it. Well...not too bad. I wasnt feeling well. I had a headache and pretty much spent the entire day in a dark room sleeping because anything that had to do with light hurt my eyes. I think it was either a brain tumor (very unlikely), a migraine (still pretty unikely) or else my vision is going bad and I might need glasses (much more likely). This headache came on after I worked all day on a computer and then came home and read for 6 hours or so.

Of course, I dont have a vision plan so if I do need glasses, I'll have to pay for them myself. I am going to wait and see if I get any more headaches though before I decide to spend any money. The funny thing is that I dont know how much of that is because I dont want to spend money and how much of that is because I dont want to admit that my eyes, or any other part of me, might be aging.

I am not entirely sure why I dislike seeing the signs of aging in myself. It isnt so much that I am worried about losing my looks because I never had conventional beauty in the first place and in the second place, I kind of think that older women *are* beautiful in their own way anyways. No...I think what bugs me is that aging is a reminder that life is finite and I figure that around half of my life is over. I just feel like I want MORE time. Half over already? It can't be!

Oh well. I hear that when people get really old, they sometimes feel done. I guess that is my wish: That no matter when or where I die, I'll feel done living.



posted by: FinalyFree (reply)
post date: 11.14.07 (8:01 pm)

I'll have to say I've been feeling the same way as of late. It's not so much the fact that I am *older* or the fact that fine lines have migrated all over my face, but more the fact that statistically speaking my life is half over.

I wonder, no matter how 'done' we feel, will we ever be tired of living?



posted by: Verlaine (reply)
post date: 11.16.07 (1:13 am)

Lynne, if you need glasses, get them. Rock them till the wheels fall off. I can't get out of bed without my glasses. I've worn glasses since I was eighteen months old. If you had eye insurance it would probably only pay about 10% of what the glasses you would want to wear actually cost. Sight is expensive. I spend about a thousand a year to keep myself in glasses.

I am trying hard to not believe in middle age. Goodness knows what could happen to my eyesight then...

G/V








posted by: Shannon (reply)
post date: 11.29.07 (11:12 am)

Could be sitting in front of a computer all day. My aunt went blind after she ignored the headaches for awhile. Luckily the blindness only lasted a day or so. It was time to take a break from the computer. May be less bad now with the LED's

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