Naughty 40-
Yes, this is so-called quote that isn’t true especially for women. Wake up — you are in the exact age at which you should stop calling yourself young which is 40 years. Its actually a midlife crisis for a woman. It’s about depression, the gradual onset of menopause, or a normal part of transitioning from one phase of life to another?
Last 20 years, she is being an excellent caretaker for all people around her — let it be her pals of college, her colleagues at work, her relatives not only her close ones but distant too and ofcourse her kids. She has not even neglected her maids or drivers who served her. She is an amazing breadwinner — the best example of a time machine. Right from her morning alarm, routine house chores commuting to work, managing smart efficient work, and back home with the same level of freshness to finish off her remaining day for her family. Yes still She is a beauty queen — a good-looking doll, decked up and presentable on which every platform she is represented, let it be kids parents meetings or office team meetings or a cocktail dinner with her husband’s colleagues.
But now, feels like crying aloud when she is sitting alone with a coffee cup in the balcony. Tears automatically roll my cheeks. The question arises — What have I achieved? In fact the list will be big if the question posed to you will be reversed — What have I lost?? Yes, a lot. My energy. Now I feel less energetic to run behind the train to reach the office on time, to stand for hours in the kitchen cooking for the family, Those few grey hair definitely shows maturity but also shows the aging factor along with the weakening of bones which often complains of backache of leg cramps may be due to the C-section happened in the early 30's.
The physiological change is the because of hit of premenopause which declines the hormones resulting is a lack of sleep, mood swings, weight gains. This builds pressure on her to mask the signs of advancing age. The societal change that she faces is the behavior changes observed by youth-obsessed people around her who are not kind to her as earlier. Her own kids who are in their mid 20’s feel they are updated and smarter than their mamma’s.Her dear husband is busy and happy with his official designations and roles he gets from his office. Parents and In-laws are never her companions. Friends and colleagues are left behind in her busy schedule.
So, friends don’t let yourself feel low. Open up, talk to friends whom you haven’t for a decade, connect with nature, eat healthy, work out to feel fit, sleep enough to de-stress, visit a doctor and take a supplement to avoid deficiency, it’s never late to achieve the dream that you left unattended.
Because women at any age are strong and capable and vulnerable.
