I have never wanted to get old.
I can remember my grandmother when I was growing up.
She was a little old lady in a long shapeless dress, with white hair pulled back severely into a bun in the back.
She was a frail little woman, who did nothing that I remember.
She spent most of her time sitting in the rocking chair.
She died at the old age of 72! How times have changed.
Now when I look at women at the age of 72, I cannot image them the age of my grandmother! I am less than 10 years younger than that, and I work out, lift weights, and build things around the house in my spare time.
Friends of mine from church are in their 80s and they are wearing fashion jeans, have their hair colored, wear eye makeup and go dancing! Some of them it is hard to believe that they are aging at all!They are enjoying life to the fullest and lot looking back.
What do we do differently today than 50 plus years ago? First off, I do not think women today think of themselves as old.
They keep on doing what they have always done, and do not give up.
I cannot imagine sitting all day and doing nothing! My grandmother never even had TV to watch, so she just rocked.
Healthy eating, exercising, and keeping busy have kept me thinking young.
I know that they say that keeping stress down helps, but I have never been very good at that! I am vain, and take really good care of my skin to keep it from showing age.
I would never dream of going to sleep without cleaning and creaming my face.
I never leave the house without my eye makeup, even if I am going to the gas station! I have used anti-aging products for years, to keep my skin supple and fresh.
I now use products from Monaco because I find them to be the best skin care available.
Although I am in my 60s, I still use foundation, eyeliner, shadow, mascara, some kind of blush and lipstick.
I keep up on the latest trends so that I do not look dated.
I keep my hair in the latest style, keeping it easy to care for, due to the fineness of it, but I always have it colored.
Over the years I have softened the color, so that it is not too harsh.
My exercise keeps my body supple and strong.
Am I healthy? I always think so, but in reality, I have some major medical problems.
I have rheumatoid arthritis and coronary heart disease.
I have had a major heart attack and three times I have had to have emergency surgery to unblock totally clogged arteries.
I have had so many stents put into my artery that it is a solid stent now! Thank goodness that today this can be treated so much less invasively than it was just a few years ago.
My arthritis is being treated by one of the new miracle drugs that also were not around a few years ago.
This does not cure the disease, but it surely helps to keep it manageable and allows me to lead a normal life, without being crippled.
The main thing that keeps me young is my state of mind.
As I said in the beginning, I have never wanted to get old, and therefore I do not think of myself as being old.
I have heard woman my age or younger talk about how terribly old they are and I just laugh to myself.
I do not admit that I am their age or older.
Age is in the thinking, and I don't think old! This is why I started my new business, Beauty-from Head to Toe.
I wanted to have the best anti-aging products to help me keep looking young and a business to help me keep thinking young.
They are from the French Rivera and as you know, European woman are very vain too.
They want the best of care for themselves.
The manufacturer has been in business almost as long as I have been around and they continue to stay young!