Fortune for the day –“Never blame your neighbor until you have been in his place.” – The Talmud
I’m struggling with some writer’s block this morning. Nothing is particularly striking out at me, to write about, or stirring up in the inside of me, to write about. I feel kind of “meh” and listless today, if I am going to be perfectly honest. So, I googled “What do middle-aged women want?” What I got back was a whole bunch of rants (albeit some them very poignant and funny) about how we middle-aged women are ignored. We are ignored by the beauty and fashion industry, in the corporate pay scales, by entitled children (except when they need something), etc. etc. One article was even complaining about the fact that middle-aged women are even ignored by sexual harassers. So then it seems, we middle-aged women get hurt and pissed by being largely ignored, and thus, we get grumpy, indignant and stand-offish. And who doesn’t want to stay clear of a grumpy, stand-offish, hormonal, middle-aged woman with a resting bitch face that could stop a tiger in its tracks? So essentially, we are made to feel that it is our fault that we are ignored. And that really gets our goat. Thus the vicious circle has us trapped. I don’t know what the answer to this is, ladies. I just write it as I see it. Sometimes it is easier to watch, than to engage.
I have to admit. today’s post along with the meme at the end, made me pass coffee through my nose!
I have so been that woman (mostly in my late 40’s) when
I juggled aging parents, husband, mother-in-law and 3 teenagers.
As someone who will turn 60 in April let me give you a glimmer of hope…it really does get better!
Thank you for the glimmer, Carla. 😉
Lol THIS WOMAN BE LIKE……..a resting face is no way to face the world. Im aware what my resting face be like. lol I went to a birthday this evening and I smiled the whole time even though I didnt want to. lolololol The only way to hold the jowls back and the prop the puppet lines up is with a smile now.. Que fake, exhausting smiles.
Kit, we do think alike! I uplift my jowls the same way!! lol So, does Diane Von Furstenberg, I noticed. lol