You're Over 50™ - Dedicated to the Interests and Lifestyles of Those of Us Over 50

You've reached a time in your life that, when you were in your teens and twenties, you didn't even think about ever reaching. But, now you're here.

Most of us, or at least I think most of us, don't have an image of ourselves as old. That is, until we try to do something that we find is much more challenging than it once was, like lifting something or moving something. Then we get a new reality.

 A few months ago I went to my 45th class reunion. It was a great time visiting with people I hadn't seen in decades. The thing I found amazing, and you may find the same thing when you go to a class reunion, is how many people weren't fit enough to travel to the event. It was pretty incredible.

I'll get back to my thoughts on ageing shortly, I just want to take moment and mention class reunions. If you haven't gone to one and have the opportunity to go to one, don't miss it. A high school friend of mine that I hadn't seen in over 30 years was not going to go, and have never been to, the class reunion. I talked him into it and he had the best time he'd had in years.

Like most of us as we get older, I have a few aches and pains, but I can do darn near anything I could years ago. And yet, there are quite a number of people my age that were too sick to travel. What a revelation. It made me sit up and thank my lucky stars that I'm as fit as I am.

This site is dedicated to those of us that have passed that 50 milepost and are charging, on oblivious to our own mortality. It's funny that I haven't though of "mortality" until I used it in the previous sentence. And, even if were NOT oblivious to our own mortality, were charging on.