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The weather here has been hot, we're talking in the low 90's. I'm OK with the heat. I would rather have heat then snow and cold. This is probably because I have central air conditioning in my home and when it gets too intense, I can always find things to do inside and cool off. My job has air conditioning. I spend most of my summer in air conditioning. So, when the weather is hot on the weekend I like to spend most of my time out doors. One day this past weekend we went to a park along the Niagara River. It's a nice park. There are benches along the bike/jogging/walking path. People young and old settle down to relax in the breeze coming off the river and watching the river traffic. As I strolled along with my husband we past a woman sunning herself in a bathing suit. I couldn't help but notice this woman was about my age and I thought.. If I had a body like her's you would never catch me sunning myself in public. Being some where in her 50's she had the thickening middle, the flabby thighs, the "bye-bye" arms. You know those arms... you wave hello and the skin under your arms wave bye-bye back. Next a young woman in her late 20's came jogging by. Beatiful tan. A body sculptered into a work of art and I thought..."if only I could look like that". It was a most enjoyable afternoon. Once home, I glanced in the mirror and Oh My God! when did this happen? Looking back at me was a woman with a thickening middle, flabby thighs and those dreadful "bye-bye" arms. I knew I gained a little weight....OK maybe more then a little, and I have been trying to lose, but it's a losing battle. No matter how hard I try, I never lose an ounce. I think it's time to break all my mirrors. But wait....I ran across an article that I would like to share. It's called "About Bathing Suit Season", by Turla S.A. Raheem, Capitol Heights, MD. Most of us 50+ers don't give a darn about how we'll look in a bathing suit. We're not getting anything nipped or tucked so we can wear the latest fashions. We didn't start any special diet on New Year's to prepare for the big beach body-fest this summer. And we're not having anything custom-made for our huge-breasted-small-hipped (or vice versa) bodies. We see bodies like ours all year long at our swimming or water aerobics classes. After class, we sit unashamed in the locker room, some of us completely naked, catching up on grandchildren, sharing cake recipes and discussing articles we've read, movies we've seen and the upcoming presidential election. With so much to explore, we have no room for bathing suit dread. We've tried every whole-piece, two-piece, bikini and tankini on the market. We've finally found the skirted ones we really like, ordered two, and hope the catalog will carry it for years (otherwise, we might have to resort to a T-shirt over shorts). What I really know is that most of us are too happy about being healthy enough to swim-in our bathing suits or anything else we darn please-to worry about how we'll look doing it. I love how I find articles to help me through life. I am healthy, I am happy. For this I thank God. I hope you will also see things differently this summer. |
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