Advantages to being 60: (and I've just started!)1. You can count on your fingers the number of years until you can retire. (Unless it gets changed)
2. Somehow you become an authority figure.
3. If you are a nurse, you can eat crabby doctors for lunch! I don't know how that translates into other professions.
4. Senior discount? Bring it on! I'm not proud.
5. "That time of the month" means nothing to you.
6. "Cool" and "Trendy"--see above! Wear ugly shoes, elastic waist pants (around your real waist!), be comfortable while younger, less confident friends feel the pinch! And NO one will ever have to see your belly button again!
Things I am NOT going to do when I retire.
1. Go far far away in the wintertime for a long long time. I've been waiting my whole life to stay home through a snowstorm without feeling guilty.
2. Stop working. But I might do something else. (Archeologist? Humor writer? Walmart greeter? Solitaire extraordinaire?)
3. Dye my hair*, get a facelift, or lie about my age. I've worked hard for these gray hairs and every wrinkle I have has a story. I'm not old--I'm seasoned! Actually, I have a feeling some of my octegenarian friends are laughing at this post thinking I have no idea what the big deal about 60 is. I know I worried all year before I turned 30, and it was no big deal at all!
4. Have a colonoscopy. (The movie I can stand to miss. I'll wait and buy the t-shirt--or sell popcorn for yours!)
5. Ditto mammograms. (eeu! What if there is a power failure? Or an earthquake?)
*Don't get me wrong, I have friends and family who color their hair and seem to carry it off very well. I just know I'd never keep it up. I'd be going around with my hair in stages all the time.
