What Is Age Esteem?
Carolyn Flowers, 58
When I hear the word Age Esteem what comes to mind is age that doesn’t feel like age. Although you’re aged, you still have some of that youth in you.
My own concern with aging is to think that somebody will have to take care of me. I don’t want anybody to ever have to take care of me.
Carolyn’s Tips: Stay busy: always learning, always looking for ways to make improvements. Giving of myself. I think if you give of yourself you feel good about yourself and when you feel good about yourself you’ll age more gracefully. I think that whether you’re young or whether you’re old you should always know what your passion is. You can’t go wrong if you are doing what you’re passionate about. It’ll keep you young.
Carolyn Flowers is regional manager of the YWCA’s of Southeast U.S.
Rose’s tips: Just really sense in your own heart what it is that makes you feel good about yourself and good about your life and not be distracted by what the outside world is saying you ought to be thinking, how you should feel, how you should act, how you should think. Authenticity, honesty. Just really doing and saying and being what makes you feel comfortable in your own skin.
