Aging Gracefully
By Amber
@AmbiePam (116663)
United States
April 4, 2026 12:25pm CST
I don’t know how many people in Hollywood have face lifts, and even if they don’t have facelifts they have access to procedures that keep them looking youthful while you and I age normally.
A commercial for “The Madison” came on TV again, and they showed Michelle Pfeifer. Talk about aging gracefully! In the TV show she plays the age she really is, which is a nice change of pace. Then I look at Helen Mirren (The Queen) and Ellen Burstyn (Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, The Exorcist), who are even older, and I’m wowed. They are lovely, but also regal and impressive. I hope I age that well.
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@DaddyEvil (171186)
• United States
5h
I think I still look good enough for my age. I don't get compliments like I did when I was 50 (Before the pandemic, one nurse stopped Pretty and I when we were going into a hospital to visit a friend and told us Pretty had to wait in the car since you had to be over 16 to see patients. We were both wearing masks. When Pretty told the nurse she was 31 years old, the nurse looked confused and told me to take off my mask and then told Pretty to take hers off, too, and then congratulated both of us on how well we were aging. ) but only Pretty calls me grandpa in public and most people look at us and laugh.
Sometimes Pretty will wait until we're in a checkout line and then tells me she'll go home with me if I pay for her groceries. She says it loud enough people at other registers can hear her and, when I tell her I don't think so, they grin and laugh at us.
My hair only has a white streak in the middle with white in my sideburns and the rest is still auburn... I can't grow a mustache or beard anymore because they come in pure white.3 people like this
@LooeyVille (73)
• United States
5h
I too wish to age gracefully. I dress more modestly now than I did in my 20's and 30's so I'm not going to be one of those old ladies trying to dress too young for her age.
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@Juliaacv (55335)
• Canada
3h
I agree.
I also think that a large part of aging gracefully includes one's hair style and their choice of wardrobe items.
And I have always changed the style of items that I wore every 8 years or so over the course of my life.
Although most women, myself included, dislike our chicken necks, Harper and Willow love it and will quietly tell me when we are cuddling that they like that squishy part of my neck. 
It is hard to feel bad when they whisper those sweet nothings into your ear.
It is hard to feel bad when they whisper those sweet nothings into your ear.1 person likes this
@Juliaacv (55335)
• Canada
2h
@AmbiePam Yes they do.
And you know what?
My son knows that I am a bit fearful of retiring and not having anything to fill my time with after working.
I suggested to him today that I may just drop down to part time.
He was quick to tell me if I wanted to retire a year early (which I do not) then I could be with the girls. He told me as soon as I retire, since I am a morning person, and he always loved mornings with me before I took him to school, that I could come there and get the girls fed, dressed and out the door. He also suggested that while I was there I could put something yummy in the slow cooker for supper-which he always loved when I did when he was a child.
So.......maybe I am not so fearful of retirement as I was a day ago.
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@Tampa_girl7 (54547)
• United States
5h
They are all lovely. Those three look natural to me.
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I’m sorry for you that you didn’t have them very long.
I’m holding my breath with this aging thing. I just desperately want to hang on to my mental faculties.
@wolfgirl569 (132252)
• Marion, Ohio
2h
I have been told I don't look my age. I am happy with that
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