Response to The Conversation

 

Response to The Conversation

It's like I said to my aging and overweight depressed friend, "Being fit has nothing to do with age it has to do with being fit." I was regurgitating the excellent book by Dr. Burns, 'Intimate Connections'.

Burn's teacher, Dr. Albert Ellis, taught me that the purpose of life, if you need one, is satisfaction. "If you lose an arm, do everything you can to deal with it, then ignore it and focus on strategies for satisfaction; you may not have as many choices but you still have some."

Recently, I was rejected again for my age, which happens at all ages, so I have great skills at handling rejection as well as rejecting others not to my taste. Practice Practice Practice

I stopped watching Sex and the City mostly for its ageism and I have never seen the sequel. I imagined it to be, 'how to be immature at any age'. The author explains it "contributes to discourse on aging and the right of women to be visible at any age."

She is talking about media companies that are selling. I worked for an ad company that refused any proposal that didn't have white people 20-30 years old because that was their market. Capitalism, like ageism, sucks. So I have ad blockers on my computer and no cable TV. I was recently in hospital for a year, recovering, and in the common rooms they had commercial television on 24/7 so folks wouldn't feel lonely. I argued that media makes you feel lonely and isolated and I preferred communication companionship and sex.

Carrie Bradshaw is a painting of what that looks like but to get the real thing you have to turn her off.