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Tag Archives: aging
It’s So Easy to Fall Out of a Routine of Good Habits
I fell out of my routine since my last holiday. You see, my routine was very much a forced thing. I was waking up pre dawn, as early as 4.30am, even though I’m naturally a night owl, and going to … Continue reading
Posted in aging, family, Joy, Midlife Musings, Simple Joys
Tagged aging, aunty, children, habits, happiness, history, Life, routine
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Confused & Conflicted (Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder)
I don’t feel old, but I feel old in comparison to those under 30 especially. Grateful to learn from them as they introduce me to a new world. New terms and new ways of looking at the world. A kind … Continue reading
Posted in aging, Midlife Musings
Tagged aging, beauty, body positive, discrimination, fat, personal, thoughts
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Greatest Fears as You Age Relate to Lack of Autonomy
1. Loosing those you can’t bear to live without 2. Loosing your autonomy and thus freedom. Being controlled by someone else (worst of all a stranger who is given power over you) due to lack of finances or physical strength, … Continue reading
Trying to be My Own Therapist & Psyche Myself Up
I want to be more in control of my life and not let my anxieties highjack my peace. I want to stop having insomnia and when I finally fall asleep, nightmares. My own perceptions of advancing age and illness are … Continue reading
Posted in aging, Anxiety, Blogging & Writing, Cancer, Midlife Musings, Trauma, When Work Sucks
Tagged aging, confidence, Life, overcoming, personal
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Feeling Lost today till a Stranger (not quite actually) & Kind Soul reached out
19 years ago I lost my beloved Papa and this whole week (the dates) are a reminder of my nightmares and trauma. I did things today, I would normally enjoy, but I couldn’t quite taste my food or have any … Continue reading
My Greatest Worry is that Health Insurance Terms & Premiums Keep Changing
The Insurance companies blame the doctors and even the patients, the doctors point out that insurance companies have high management and sales commission costs too. In the end the patient is the one who suffers, especially if they have a … Continue reading
Posted in aging, Anxiety, Cancer, Singapore Living
Tagged aging, anxiety, cancer, consumer rights, distress, health insurance, Life, premiums, unethical
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My Partner’s Thoughts on Aging
Decided to ask B as well, after sharing my mum’s refreshing optimistic viewpoint in the last post. He’s usually a logical pessimist, while I’m a more emotional anxious person and we don’t always agree, so I was surprised to find … Continue reading
Posted in aging, Anxiety, Midlife Musings
Tagged aging, diabetes, health, Natural, plastic surgery, thoughts, vanity
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Aging Sucks
No matter what I hear about aging giving you more wisdom etc, to me it just plain sucks. I feel like myself on the inside, but the outside is betraying my identity. Don’t think I’ve changed much since my thirties … Continue reading
Thoughts about Our Existence
As I get older, reality doesn’t seem as solid anymore. Everything feels hazy. Almost dream like. I absolutely can’t process that I’m 51 already and 52 next. Past the dreaded milestone (I also have survivor’s guilt as in why did … Continue reading
Posted in Midlife Musings, When Work Sucks
Tagged advice, aging, death, grief, Life, midlife, thoughts
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Does Midlife Begin When You Hit Menopause?
My sister is 50 but hasn’t hit menopause yet and has a remarkable amount of energy. The energy she has is comparable to what I had in my twenties which makes me wonder why I’m so defective. We share 50% … Continue reading
Posted in Cancer, Midlife Musings
Tagged age 50, age 51, aging, cancer, hot flush, menopause, personal, surgical menopause, thoughts, tips
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Is This Old Age?
I refuse to accept that I’m old at just 51. But these days, whenever I struggle to wake up, with all the muscles and joints in my upper body aching, I feel old. When my mum was 51 she looked … Continue reading
Posted in Cancer, Midlife Musings
Tagged aging, getting old, Life, Living, midlife, old age, personal, thoughts
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Total Opposite of a Social Butterfly
I don’t like bumping into people from my ‘past lives’ (when you’re old enough you will have this). This imp’s blog post reminded me of it and thank goodness I’m not such a misfit after all. There are people with … Continue reading
Posted in Midlife Musings
Tagged aging, dislike, feelings, Life, older, people, personal, social anxiety
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Yearnings & Doubts
My dream has always been to write a novel. Not just write, but as my vanity demands, to be published. A story that’s within me. But when I read books by acclaimed authors like Salman Rushdie, I feel, who am … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging & Writing, Midlife Musings
Tagged aging, book, doubts, novel, personal, procrastination, thoughts, writing, yearnings
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Worries & Wishes
Wish I could stop being such a worry wart but I think it’s genetically programmed in me to be anxious. Sometimes that can be a good thing because I tend to get things done due to anxiety, but when the … Continue reading
Posted in Midlife Musings, White as Milk
Tagged aging, anxiety, Dreams, emotional, feelings, hopes, Life, midlife, personal, travel, wishes, worries
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Is It Wrong that I Still Call Myself Girl?
Warning: rambling post ahead….. I feel embarrassed when I refer to myself as ‘girl’ in online descriptions (and in my head). Gal seems more acceptable somehow. I am not sophisticated enough to be ‘lady’ or wise enough to be ‘woman’. … Continue reading
Hey Gen Y: 3 Reasons why you may find me Primitive
1. Books: Enid Blyton, Laura Ingalls Wilder and Judy Blume defined my childhood – not Harry Potter (I haven’t read a single book and found the original movie a bit too young for me – ok boring). I wanted to … Continue reading
Posted in Midlife Musings
Tagged 3 Reasons, aging, books, cell phones, childhood, culture, Enid Blyton, Gen X, Gen Y, Generation Gap, Harry Potter, humour, Judy Blume, Lady Gaga, Life, Living, Mallory Towers, music, St Clares, technology
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Books: Salman Rushdie’s Luka and the Fire of Life
I wanted so much to like this book and I actually found it pleasing from the onstart, but somehow I found myself skimming through in the middle. This is after all a book for children that is meant to appeal … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging & Writing
Tagged affectionate, aging, Art, author, book, books, death, Life, literature, Living, Luka, Luka and the Fire of Life, Milan, mortality, older parents, parents, personal, Salman Rusdie, son, Video, writer, writing
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To Blog or To Read
Please pardon my lack of blogging. You see, I am so engrossed in the Peter Mayle novel that I’m reading that even though I have tons of photos I haven’t posted them yet. I am also overwhelmed by the tons … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging & Writing
Tagged aging, Art, blogging, books, British, dad, father, Food, getting older, gourmet, hungry, Ishiguro, Kazuo Ishiguro, Life, light, Living, Mayle, personal, Peter Mayle, reading, taste, wit
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According to the Life Expectancy Calculator I have till Age 72
I was expecting it to be loads worse. I know that my lifestyle habits are crap, apart from the fact that I have never smoked or eaten beef (my red meat consumption would be pork sometimes). Wanna try it out? … Continue reading
Posted in Health & Wellness
Tagged aging, calculator, health, interesting, Life, life expectancy, live, Living, wellness
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Miserable After the Reunion
I am debating whether to write about this at all, but I feel compelled to since all I feel like doing right now is cry. But I just feel numb. You know those times when you feel like crying, but … Continue reading
Posted in Midlife Musings
Tagged 40's, aging, anxiety attack, being different, blogging, cab, cars, claustophobia, culture, death, depressed, doormat, expectations, fourties, friends, grief, happiness, Life, Living, married, mid-life crisis, miserable, misery, norms, Panic Attack, partner, personal, reunion, sadness, school reunions, single, singlehood, situational claustrophobia, social anxiety, social anxiety disorder, societal norms, society, taxis, unique, unmarried, women, writing
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