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When I'm 64...The Beatles and Me

The Beatles sang it...Now we're living it... Will you still need me, will you still feed me, When I'm sixty-four?

I'm not mentioning it's my birthday today to receive additional birthday cards or e-mails...but merely to say I can not fathom my chronological age is the age it really is. 

64 does sound a wee bit mature (ok, old) on somebody else, but for me (as well as 3.9 million more leading-edge baby boomers), we're now into our 'Prime Time.'  I really mean it...our 'Prime Time.'

We 'young-timers' (as opposed to old-timers) have not only seen history happen - we've made it every decade of our lives.  Our parents experienced life through the Great Depression and World War II while we boomers have been here right from the beginning of mid-20th century time (think television, black-and-white, the first people on our blocks to get it; man-on-the-moon; computers, etc, etc). 

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We've had our moments - and our movements- and survived civil rights, women's rights, gay rights, Vietnam, the hippie years, and six-plus decades of personal and historical drama.

Now it's our time to survive.  I mean thrive, like no age cohort before us!

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Although many (most?) of our parents are gone, American life expectancy has increased from 48 years to almost 80 years since the turn of the century before this one (1900).  It's our time to reckon with improving the time we have left, which, I believe, no one is certain of and appreciating ourselves for whom we truly are (or want to be).

I used to say "when I grow up, I want to be..." and have all the answers (married, a teacher, 2.3 children, healthy, happy, successful).  Now, I want to feel secure for myself and loved by the people who matter to me.  I want to love me.  And, I want to worry less, laugh more heartedly, and get good medical reports.

That's not a very tall order for a woman getting on with her life, is it?

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