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Writer's pictureLaura Wright

When I am old...

Updated: Aug 10, 2019

...When I am an old woman I shall wear purple

When I am an old woman I shall wear purple

With a red hat which doesn't go, and doesn't suit me,

And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves

And satin sandals, and say we've no money for butter.

I shall sit down on the pavement when I'm tired

And gobble up samples in shops and press alarm bells

And run my stick along the public railings

And make up for the sobriety of my youth.

I shall go out in my slippers in the rain

And pick the flowers in other people's gardens

And learn to spit.

You can wear terrible shirts and grow more fat

And eat three pounds of sausages at a go

Or only bread and pickle for a week

And hoard pens and pencils and beermats and things in boxes.

But now we must have clothes that keep us dry

And pay our rent and not swear in the street

And set a good example for the children.

We must have friends to dinner and read the papers.

But maybe I ought to practise a little now?

So people who know me are not too shocked and surprised

When suddenly I am old, and start to wear purple.


- Stevie Smith


And in all honesty, old souls are good at being old..I have a theory that the signs of Pisces, Scorpio, Ophiuchus and Sagittarius are the oldest souls.


I have always looked forward to this. I will never feel old in my mind or body. I am very young at heart. I will feel 'old' in my soul.


I walked up the long staircase, spiral and straight, after the beach. A couple (in, guess, their twenties were just struggling to make the top. I over took them "Come on, now, you are half my age.....get to the top", they laughed, nervously. "I probably have twice the muscles though"..I laughed.


Internal dialogue "...And I've been flexing these since the first time I had to fight for my life, aged 19"....which would have been far too much information. I went along my merry way, back to my car for a beautiful drive home. Road confidence well and truly back.

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