Over a month ago I passed into a new decade of life. The Fifth one. Yep, I am FIFTY! Funny how I don't feel I should be 5-0 yet sometimes I feel older.
I don't remember pondering so much about age when I moved from my 20's to the 30's or even 30's to 40's. When I turned 30 I spent the day in bed with a really bad case of the flu. I don't even recall turning 40 so I figure I must have just accepted it and moved on. But the current transition from my forties to my fifties has me contemplating past, present and future more than I ever found myself contemplating in the past.
A few months ago I saw a piece on an early morning show where women 50 and over were talking about being invisible after 50. If I'm remembering correctly, the piece was more about aging and "beauty". The women were discussing how they noticed men no longer looked at them the way they did when they were younger. I guess it bothered these women. Well, I've never considered myself that kind of beauty, but it got me to thinking and I agreed. The more I thought about it, and have now been more closely observing, women 50 and over enter the Age of Invisibility when they enter their fifth decade.
I've decided to test this theory, hence the blog's name. If I am invisible now,then I can observe the world from and entirely different level. This blog will be about my observations as a 50 year old woman who has entered the dreaded...Age of Invisibility. Sometimes fun, sometimes sad, sometimes political, basically whatever comes to my mind on a particular day.
