50's Plus Check in thread July 21st to July 29th
How's it going?
Everyone getting excited about the proposed 50+ subcommunity? I think there are a lot of possibilites that can be explored with such an idea. More importantly, how does it make you feel?
Further, anything interesting going on in your neck of the woods?
Not much here, teaching extra classes to cover all the ones I'll miss when on holiday.
Even if you don't post, no matter, just know we are excited you are here, drop by one of the other threads to let us get to know you.
By checking in, does this mean I have to admit to being over 50?!? I have been 29 and holding for many years now :)
@carefreeHeart57
I won't say anything if you don't.
:P
@carefreeHeart57
thanks for that. Because funnily, I am ahem, 29 too. ;-D
@Charlie40
I think a lot of us that are 50+ would wish we could go back in years. :)
@carefreeHeart57
Mum's the word!😆😆😆!
Sh Sh Sh Sh!!! Be very very very very quiet carefree has a secret!!😆😆😆😆😆!
Welcome,
Glad that you check in!! 😊😊😊😊!
Nice to meet you!!
@DaveMcGrath well I am excited about having a 50+ community to discuss the issues near and dear to me. I can remember 50 years old okay, but 35 years old was like a different lifetime. Teenage years was another lifetime. I heard there are phases in your life and having people in the phase you are in can help with empathy and just knowing things the other person in going through.
@soulsings
I like how you used the word phase because that is what I heard earlier this week from others also. It is amazing the different phases that we have and some of the friends in each phases and which friends we still have from some of those phases.
@DanaMH
It's wonderful to have still friends from your "young" phases, I am lucky, I am still in contact with 2 people I know from school (best friends), unfortunately they are in a different country. I find it much harder to get new friends after a certain age, sure after hitting the 50s.
@amiablePeace77
Yes, I like some of my friends that I have now had for 31 years which is amazing and I agree it is harder to make friends when you get older maybe because they all have a lot going on but maybe because we have a broad range of interest also.
@amiablePeace77 yes making friends can be more of a challenge. To me that is one role that this area can help us with.
@amiablePeace77
Hi.
Glad that you check in!! 😊😊😊!!
Nice to meet you!! 😊😊😊😊!
@soulsings
I'm creeping my way towards 50 and some of you make me realize its just another milepost to embrace with good cheer and a smile. Not much farther to go for me.
Do I get a secret decoder ring?
@soulsings I relate to everyones comments about how having/getting/keeping friends as you age. For me my life changed so drastically that I've lost touch with the friends I had in my 30's and 40's. And the last 6 years of my 50's have been a whirlwind of even more changes. I became so busy I didnt have/make time for riends. And the social media sites that have become so popular are overwhelming and a little uncomfortable to me. I dont understand how these younger people have time to take picutes of everything they think, say and do, and post them on all these sites. Or why they would want to? I do have one real friend that has weathered the crazy storms of my life for the last 15 years and I treasure that relationship. Thank you for letting me share!
@estompe55
Glad that you check in! 😊😊😊😊!
Nice to meet you! 😊😊😊😊
That's great that you have one best friend from all of those years!!
@soulsings
Hi,
Glad that you check in!! 😊😊😊!!
Well said!! I like what you had to say!!
@soulsings I totally agree! Whilst it is lovely to speak with people of all ages I feel we only get real empathy with people of our own generational peer group because we can all relate to where we all are!!! 
@DaveMcGrath
this is great! thank you Dave!
@DaveMcGrath
Hey Dave, I am having a "blast" with being over 50+, best time of my life so far 
, also I am very exited about the new subcommunity!
@amiablePeace77
It is amazing what we can do now that we didn't have time before we were 50+ and I am go glad that you are having the best time of your life so far. So glad that you are exited about the new subcommunity because I think a lot of us are.
@DanaMH
True Dana, there was a lot of anxiety in my young ages, much better now, particularly since I joined 7 cups.
@DanaMH I am excited too. Glad to share your enthusiasm!
@amiablePeace77
Really glad to have you here. I was worried the team would be made up of 20 year olds. Between you, Dana, Soulsings, and Charlie I think you will all have 50+ well represented.
Looking to seeing more of you around these parts.
@DaveMcGrath
Hey Dave, I am glad to be here and you can add a few plusses to the 50 haha
@DaveMcGrath
im excited about the 50+ group and to chat with people who have been around as long as I have
@70times7
We are glad that you are part of the 50+ group also.
@70times7
Hi there, I am around for quite some time too. Sometimes it's nice to chat with people of similar age so I am glad to meet people here. Hope you have a good day and a wonderful week.
@70times7
So happy to have you!! :)
@70times7
Hi there,
Glad that you check in! 😊😊😊!
Nice to meet you! 😊😊!
We are wiser, calmer, and often happier than we were, aren't we? Maybe because we worry less and less about what people think? I didn't expect that to happen when I was younger! I think the 50+ is going to be a lovely community. We won't desert the 35+ though, if you will have us, it is nice to mingle, right?
Dana, I'm filling the form :-)
@Charlie40
No, those of us that are 50+ won't have to leave the 35+ area we still can mingle with the younger folks anytime we would like to.
@Charlie40
I feel so too, calmer, kind of wiser by having done a great part of our thorny path already, thorns are not that scary anymore, more and more often we know what to wear to protect us.
@Charlie40
Ah good, you made it. :P
@Charlie40
Hi there,
Glad that you check in! 😊😊!
Nice to meet you!! 😊😊😊!
We have already doubling in size in the last 2 days. This is so exciting to have a place where other people 50+ (even if they want to be 29 forever lol) and can share about the issues that are near and dear to them.
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@soulsings I have filled out the form. Thanks!
@Lauren63
Lauren that's great!
@Lauren63 thanks Lauren you are now in the tag list! Thanks for your participation.
@soulsings
Hi,
I'm here! 😆😆!
How's it going?
@soulsings
Double in size - yay Oldies are great
@DaveMcGrath
Always here to help just ask me.
Checking in...glad there is a 50 and plus community. What happens now? 
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@soulsings
Thanks for the link - I am signed up!
@sincereHemlock2665 you are welcome. I updated the tag list and you aer on it!
@sincereHemlock2665
Hi Hemlock, we are happy to see you joining us
@amiablePeace77
Thank you for the warm welcome! 😊
@sincereHemlock2665
Hi there,
Glad that you check in!! 😊😊😊😊!
Nice to meet you!! 😊😊😊😊!
I am so glad this is happening. Im struggling with having a good attitude about getting older and how different I look and feel. I know this is a big part of my depression. I truly want to age with grace and I hope connecting with others who have seen more of life will encourage me to have a more positive attitude...and maybe I might be a little bit of an encouragement too.
In my neck of the woods...I am prematurely retired due to emotional overload. I am working on "reinventing" myself. Learning quilting and trying to find out what I am supposed to do with the rest of my life...write a book, teach some worldview classes, develop some business ideas. I have not been able to make choices about what to do with my time for 33 years so this is kind of daunting and a little scary.
Looking forward to visiting here later today and read some other folks posts. Thanks to Dave and 7 Cups for giving this a go!
@estompe55
I agree once we get older it is harder to figure out what to do with our time. Learning quilting and the other ideas that you are thinking of sound like really great ideas. If you also like to play games my therapist mentioned to me about Meetup and the Sr Center is always trying to find folks to play games with others. I also started helping out at the food bank if you are interested in volunteering I am sure there are lots of things in your area that also need help.
@estompe55
I am glad you are part of this emerging community. We are here for you. 
@estompe55
Hi estompe, first of all I like to say that I am happy that you connect with us, you are very welcome here. Stepping out of a busy life into a quite one takes a lot of courage and is definitively not easy in my opinion, it requires a lot of adjustment or "reinventment" as you said. When retiring (for whatever reason) things change, a lot of us have to define a new "me", but it can become a wonderful journey, not been driven anymore by what we have to do (at least to a great extend) but what we can and to a good deal what we want to do.