“Doesn’t time fly?”
How many times do we trot out the phrase “Doesn’t time fly?”
Well the older I’ve become the more I’m convinced time has strapped itself to a supersonic jet. I honestly was telling a friend the other day Mark and I had been together for three years when in actual fact it’s four this July, and was it only Summer 2021 when I was going through the final drafts of my book ‘How To Age Well The Secrets’ while sitting in a hotel room in Santorini? Yes, the sun was shining the ocean was twinkling and I was strapped to my laptop. I refer to this because my publisher has asked me to consider writing a second book and I’m in the process of looking at subjects we didn’t cover last time or did but not in as much depth as I would now like to. At one time companies would summon the help of market researchers when deciding what to publish but for the area I work in and this magazine we have wonderful you to help us. You tell us exactly what you want through letters, emails or the most immediate form of contact social media, in my case it’s the wonderful world of Instagram. With its quick responsive style followers don’t hold back on what worries them, so my next book will be written based on and incorporating that precious feedback. We can’t stop aging but we can gain life in our years and the best way to do that is stay as healthy as possible and its health that seems to preoccupy those of us who have tipped over the sixty mark, don’t get me wrong we still have a ‘healthy’ interest in hair, clothes and make up its what makes us women and we see on many occasions the change in confidence when someone has a makeover they bloom, but all these fripperies are nothing if we’ve ignored our health. I want this book to be is the readers wise possibly older friend I often say in interviews you should always have a collection of friends 10 years older than you and 10 years younger, the older ones will tell you what’s coming and the younger ones will keep you motivated, I have a wide spread of friends representing all age groups and I’m grateful to all of them for their warnings and sometimes brutal advice.
I’m researching necks at the moment because I’m being asked questions about improving the look of them, but did you know it’s not all about you swerving the factor 50 and not caring for your skin?
Your head is heavy old thing for your vertebrae to hold in place and over the years due to natural aging and bad posture the discs between your spine's vertebrae flatten thus shortening your neck and giving the appearance of sagging skin. Think of your discs as once fluffy marshmallows that were left out and now they are less flexible and flatter. There are ways you can help lessen the blow all of which I’m looking into but in the meantime shoulders back and stand up (or sit up) straight
Love,
Anthea X