أنا لا أكبر… كطائر العنقاء ، اتجدد من رمادي
في مجتمعاتنا العربية، لا يزال السؤال عن عمر المرأة يعدُّ طعنة خفية تتسلل نحو عمق الذات، وكأنّ السنوات خطيئة ترتكبها أنثى في حق أنوثتها. فلطالما رسخت ثقافة تُمجّد الشباب، وتُقصي كل من تخطت عتبة الثلاثين، وتحاصر الأربعينية، وتشيّع الخمسينية إلى هامش الحياة كأنها انتهت، بينما في الواقع… المرأة لا تُقاس بسنواتها، بل بمواقفها، بحضورها، وبقيمة التجارب التي منحتها الزمن.
“ولدت الآن… أنا ابنة هذه اللحظة.”
اقرئي عن نساءٍ صنعن مجدهن بعد الأربعين والخمسين، من أميليا إيرهارت إلى مايا أنجلو… فالعمر متى امتلكتِه، صار سلاحك لا سجنك.
I don't grow old... Like a phoenix, I renew myself from my ashes.
In our Arab societies, asking about a woman's age is still considered a hidden stab that creeps deep into the self, as if years are a sin committed by a woman against her femininity. A culture has long been entrenched that glorifies youth, marginalizes anyone over thirty, besieges those in their forties, and relegates those in their fifties to the margins of life as if they are finished. In reality, a woman is not measured by her years, but by her stances, her presence, and the value of the experiences that time has bestowed upon her.
🔸 Only in the East does a woman have an imaginary expiration date, an unannounced date for her dismissal from the calculus of femininity and presence. In advanced societies, however, each new year is a celebration of wisdom, maturity, and the accumulation of experience. Women there deeply live their present, while we bind them with the rope of fear of the future... and the obsession: When will her hair turn gray? When will her eyes go out? When will her magic fade?
🔸 The painful truth is that the problem doesn't start with men alone, but with women themselves, when they accept this unfair classification and surrender their value to a society that reduces them to a number. If every woman realized that her years don't steal her presence, but rather add a new sense of dignity to her stature, she wouldn't surrender to an expiration date that only exists in limited minds.
🔸 Ages are numbers, my lady, but existence is a presence and a stance. A true woman isn't measured by the number of candles on her birthday cake, but by the amount of light she radiates into the souls of those around her.
🔸 Be the lady of your age, not the victim of your years. And if someone ever asks you, "How old are you?" smile, take a deep breath, and then say, "I was born now... I am the daughter of this moment."
🔸 In the end, your true age is the one you live, not the one others count for you.
My advice:
Read about women who made their mark after forty and fifty, from Amelia Earhart to Maya Angelou... When you master age, it becomes your weapon, not your prison.

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