Monday, December 20, 2010

NOT JUST ANOTHER PAGEANT...

This morning on the Today show, there was a spot on a beauty pageant held in Atlantic City. It wasn't your typical beauty pageant. It's for women over 60. Ladies of elegance. The story was on the Senior Miss America Beauty Pageant. You had to be at least 60 years of age to enter. Some of the ladies were in their 80s. They were all beautiful and wise and had lots to offer anyone who would listen. Some of them were on stage for the first time in their lives. Each state was represented. And no...there was no swimsuit competition. There was, however, a talent competition, singing, dancing, and other things that go with that type of thing. There wasn't a scholarship given or a huge cash prize, but the winner will spend the next year traveling and representing the competition and all women by confidently modeling what can be expected by women of any age.

I loved it.

Men and women don't retire from life. We don't retire from wisdom. We don't retire from interacting with one another. Well.....we do....but at that point, someone typically picks out your headstone...

The message is that we're never too old to take on a new perspective. We're never too old to "know everything we need to know". We're never too old to change gears and take a different path.

I want to be those ladies when I grow up.

I'm shining up the tiara....

2 comments:

Blasé said...

If you don't use it, you'll lose it.

Shake it, don't Break it!

Retirement is for sissies.

The Katzbox said...

You're right. I don't know of anyone who truly retires anymore. The people I know that "retire" take on other and bigger responsibilities. The idea that someone can just quit life and never "work" again simply flips me out. I hope the Boomers are rewriting retirement, like they're rewriting everything else.

:)