I’m officially classified as a ‘Senior’ in my country. We even get given a special Senior’s Card to prove it (a discount concession card)!

I have worked extremely hard & been through a great deal to ‘earn’ every wrinkle & a head full of white hair, lol! And I wouldn’t change a thing!

Asian culture highly respects the elders of their society. I experienced this when I visited there some years back. It was very refreshing!

Where sadly the West has lost this respect & gone the other way with Ageism against our elders.

I agree everyone deserves respect, no matter what age they may appear to be.
Blessings, Jennifer

We don’t think of aging when we are in our 30’s or 40’s (even with the age related birthday cards) and I think that is great. When we are those ages, we need to ‘live to the maximum’ what we can during those years. And moving along to these older years (for some of us), we need to keep engaged as best we can with what these years bring.

I am a strong believer that women of different ages need opportunities to sit down and share with one another from their life perspectives (as one of your other readers mentioned, too). How else can we honor one another if we don’t know the ways life has been and continues to be for each of us. Our churches, too, need to focus on the mandate that we ‘are’ the Body of Christ’ and each one makes up the whole and needs to feel respected and honored and known – not put off into a segregated group of like-aged people!

The gift of years is a true gift to be celebrated!

Thank you for sharing this wisdom here, Donna! I appreciate hearing your insights, and also your gentle admonition that we “olders” don’t need to voluntarily put ourselves out to pasture when we still have so much to give. I hope there will be ongoing conversations among all the generations as we recalibrate how we think about aging.

Such a great question, Lynn: “Why do we have measure people as “old” or “young” instead of just a person?” I don’t know either. But yes, when possible I also take advantage of senior discounts, just like when I was young and given child discounts. 🙂

Yes. I don’t like being judged as out of touch just because of my age either. It’s strange being the “older one” in some settings now, and discovering how often the youngers avoid talking with the olders. I’m sure I was the same when I was their age, though, unfortunately.

I also agree it’s not helpful when we always have to separate by age. We have so much to gain from relationships with people of all ages, not just our own, and sometimes we need a little extra nudge to help us talk with each other.