Today, I want to talk to you about why you might want to subscribe to the silver Disobedience podcast. No matter how old we are today, we've never been this age before. So what does it mean? Throughout life when we're told at your age, how are we supposed to act with each year? Do we cross some kind of invisible threshold and if so does that mean we're supposed to change our style and maybe dress differently? And if that's the case, what does it look like every year?
Does it keep changing? You know, do the rules change, if we have children and what if we never have children? What does this mean? Would we never act our age then? And if the day is declared, when all the sudden were supposed to act our age, what are the behaviors were supposed to tweak? Are the changes mandatory are there penalties for? Non-compliance is somebody watching? Who's the judge? You see it seems to me throughout our lives.
We're either told to act our age or we spend all our time worrying about becoming our age you know what's up with these cultural issues regarding age and aging Why don't we just relax? Welcome and embrace the benefits of the years. We've lived no matter how young or old we are. You know, I think the bigger challenge is learning how to communicate through each stage of our lives, and that's what I focus on.
You see, as a business woman, a wife, a mom and author who didn't become a who actually became a silver model in my 50s, you know? No, I've always challenged life and I've never been easily contented. I've lived with a ferocious curiosity and a hunger for knowledge, and it really deep desire to try to understand human connections starting with myself. And trust me, I'm a whirlwind to try to figure out but I started with me and that's really what I write about.
Because all of, you know, our understandings start with ourselves and it was with this understanding and idea that all the things that I dealt with my whole life, resulted in a life full of experiences, and created my personality and made me who I am. So, in light of all this, I wrote my first silver Disobedience blog back in November of 2017. And in it, I began questioning Learning a whole range of societal beliefs about aging,
you know, and especially Life After 50 but not just life after Fifty because for example you know that whole you know you're too old to know what you're talking about or you're too young to know what's happening is constant and you can flip it either way. You could be too young to know what's happening or too old to know what's happening. It's all it, every age, we're learning, we're knowing, and every age is relevant, and brings new new information to
any conversation. So it's all important every age. But, you know, let's get back to. Why do people dislike the idea of getting older? I mean, I know 17 year olds that have Peter. Pan complex has already, they're very worried about getting older because there were afraid of all the responsibilities. They're told it's going to come with.
And that's True. There are a lot of responsibilities with age but let's look at a thesaurus that probably really dates me and I guess they have online thesaurus is too but you know, the synonyms for old are ancient decrepit. Tired, fossil broken down dilapidated, enfeebled exhausted, you know, Antiquated, archaic and geriatric. You know, I don't know about you but those words don't describe feelings about myself or really
any of the others. I know that are in the later half of their 50s or Beyond, you know, into their 80s and 90s, you know, I don't think they were, you know, really reflect us at all. In fact, to the contrary, it's the antonyms of old that I hear most commonly referenced. So for me, I look at every Year of life is a new period. You know, with an unanticipated excitement I just want some of the tools to know how to deal with all the people.
I'm going to be encountering with all the emotions on going to be having to deal with and process. That's what I really want. I want to be able to process perceptions that I'm picking up all day long, and know that each of my cumulative years, just like yours. Every one of Since the day, we've been born the day, we're all born, you know, becomes a catalyst for us to release energy and it allows us to Blossom in new and really
unexpected anticipated ways. You know, everywhere Year we're growing into new versions of ourselves, you know. And in some, you know, there was a great David Bowie quote that where he said, you know, we're really just peeling back the layers and becoming who we were always supposed to be, you know,
we were born with that attitude. We strutted in her diapers and thought we were ER, all that, you know, but we lose that over the years, through the socialization process, which is something I talk about in this blog because socialization is important, but it does have both positive and negative impacts on
everybody. So to me, I want to talk about shedding shedding the standards that no longer have meaning for us, really focusing on Ourselves first, you know, our wants our needs and desires because when we focus on ourselves we can really then see other so much more clearly and help them and be good, friends and lovers. And, you know, husbands and wives and boyfriends and girlfriends. And we can be all that as they say, but it starts with really
understanding ourselves. So I will say, you know, aging isn't easy. I'm not going to tell everyone that you all of a sudden starts have a love fest with your wrinkles or scars that we picked up along the way, you know, nor am I going to not going to tell you that there aren't personal Health financial, and all kinds of other challenges that accompany every years, we age. But now having read hundreds of thousands of comments from the people who have read, My posts.
And I mean, they are truly heartfelt and they warm my heart. I firmly can declare that most of us have lived long enough to get wrinkles one way or another or at least some scarves. And we recognize it could have been far worse to not have had the opportunity to get those wrinkles or the scars that life delivered. The majority of us look at life as we're honored and happy to be alive. All of this plus countless additional conversations and observations constructed.
The fundamental idea upon which I built silver to Speedy ins and maybe it perhaps it's that Aging in essence is the evolving process of getting to know ourselves more deeply and with greater Rifts acceptance over time. So that evolving process of getting to know ourselves more deeply and with greater acceptance over time. That's the goal of my podcast. My books, my daily blogs and
it's remain constant. I try to impart practical relatable challenging thoughts, once that I'm usually challenging myself with, but I just share them with you all for your thoughts and musings and ideas.
So we can all explore our connectedness and release many of the feelings of aloneness the loneliness that we grapple with to one degree or another throughout our lives, because we think others can't possibly be thinking or worrying about the same stuff we are when they sure R. So self are tackling this silver Disobedience Journey.
Well it's been a dream. It's been a dream beyond my wildest imaginations and it's really thanks to the willingness of hundreds of thousands of people I know some, as young as age, 13, right up to 103 who participate in my daily conversations that I have on my website, social media accounts, and Via this podcast. So I really want to thank thank you for joining me. I hope you subscribe again. I'm Diane gracel, and I'm also known as silver Disobedience.
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