51 Is The New 15

By Dr.Anubhuti Gupta

When you are above 50, you do not realize how soon time flies and you have completed your half century and public is not clapping about it but keeping you remind about your age and I say to them that Age is just a number, if you do not mind it, it does not matter. Really, I believe in this. Why? There are several reasons…Let me explain...For me, as if I am again living my sweet 15. In 15, when you taste the sweetness of youth and you start caring about yourself above everything else, like the same way when I am 51, I start caring about myself again like anything.

Daily I do go for morning and evening walks and in addition to that I do 1 hour yoga and regularly see myself in mirror for how I am looking. These activities remind me of my early teenage days where I spent my fun time in cycling and playing badminton to keep myself in shape and constantly staring at myself in the mirror. So, yes 51 is new 15 for me or I can say again fifteen for me. 

During start of my fifteen, I started experimenting with my dresses too. I started wearing midi, jeans, western skirts, and other modern outfits. It was a great transformation from frock to modern dresses. Friends and family member used to compliment me.51 was again a transformational year for me. I started wearing ling skirts, jeans, and midi again which I forgot to wear after my professional journey started. I was more restricted to official dresses at home too as often my home used to become office on weekends. But crossing fifty was a big transition era for me, like AI predominating the marketplace, my personal space was dominated by Again I am here. It is said that forty is the old age of youth and fifty is the youth of old age, so I was feeling young again. Reaching fifty got, me the answer to the popular question that why fifty is the perfect time for a life change?

Yes, Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength. You find new rigour with vigour at this stage. You want up open more. Involve more in social activities and help other with experiences. Suddenly I find myself going with friends for parties, shopping, movies. I remembered when I was 15, I went at my best friend, Abha place for night stay and the whole night we danced on loud music and her mother too danced with us. It was really a memory and after that we often used to stay at each place home. At Abha place, they did keep a cow as pet.  Her mother used to offer us cups of tea, after every hour at night too. It was a total surprise for me as at my home only two cups of tea were allowed in the whole day, and we never had tea during the bedtime. But at her palace things were different and whole night too we used to drink endless cups of tea.

Shifting at my parent’s place during my early 51s gave me a social circle again and I got some awesome friend with whom I started going for long trips, shopping and movies.During my youth, there was no Facebook, twitter, or Instagram and we were more making fun outside. Yes, at one of the cafes we visited with my 50+ friends, it was written on the wall- “50 and Above: When Social Media Means Talking to People Face to Face at a Coffee Shop”. Just by reading the lines, we started laughing. At 15, you look young and beautiful. It’s said that “Jawani main to crow bhi sundar dikhta hai”. And yes you attract more people towards yourself and I  got a few proposals during my young age, but had to turn them down as I was focusing on my career.As I said 50 is the youth of old age, so in this new youth when I am active, outgoing and social, people pull towards you and some started flirting with me. I had to keep a check on them as my social status is not the same now.Life at 15 is lot more than the fun. It is the same age when you start thinking of your career seriously and you have to choose the stream in which you want to make your career, and you have to choose it wisely and carefully as your life is dependent on it.

I selected the medical field and joined a coaching for preparing for several medical entrance examinations as at that time there was no NEET. There were separate exams like CPMT, AIIMS, JIPMER, BHU etc. At 51 I decided to change my career path and wanted to enter AI field. Many of my friends and relatives opposed my decision, but I was adamant like anything and joined online and offline courses for Gen AI. I visioned that AI is the future, now it is not the future, it is the present. Those not upskilling themselves w.r.t.AI may lose their jobs too who are learning, unlearning, and relearning.Pushing myself a bit more, I found myself in a role of AI trainer and the job which I am enjoying a lot. So, from a biochemist to AI trainer, the journey was beautiful. Just you keep on learning from your experiences, successes, failures, and mistakes. Life is not made up with age’s numbers. It is made of memories, experiences, and knowledge.

Life after 50 is a lot more fun you think. I am learning different new things at this time of year. I learnt tarot card reading and became one of the panellists at a leading astrology company and it’s my part time job. I too wanted to learn baking from a longer time and now enrolled for a baking course offline. This weekend for four hours I will be learning how to bake different cakes and may be in near future if you visit my place, I may offer you my own baked cupcakes. At 51, I learned to be more experimenting, more exploring my culture, city, and connoisseur. I do go for solo trips too for finding novel places within the city and outside of the city and get to know our country’s cultural nuances. Every 200 km, language changes, food changes and clothing too changes. So rich heritage of our country and the best part of the country is that it gives equal love to elders, youth, and children. You find new and old city surviving together without interfering in each other’s boundaries. Our life is also remarkably similar, and we should give love to each phase of our life. I do not want to be ageless beauty. There is nothing more beautiful than a woman being unapologetically herself, comfortable in her imperfections. To me, that is the true essence of life and life is indeed beautiful irrespective of age. I want to be a woman who is the best I can be at my age.

Yes, I am 15 years old with 36 years of experience. The experience which makes me more beautiful, more compassionate, more sympathetic, more experimenting, more expressive and more knowledgeable. Life is too short to be lived counting the years. And these years have turned me into a fine blend of wisdom, sarcasm, and snack-loving sass.51 is an excellent time for outrage.my motive is to say or do at least one or two outrageous things every week…hahaha…  You all too, just enjoy the ride and make impressive memories……because …

You look twenty,You feel like 16,You act like 15,Guess that makes you fifty-one

YOU ARE NOT TOO OLD AND IT’S NOT TOO LATE AS 51 IS AN ACHIEVEMENT, NOT A NUMBER!