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What is it like to age and hit the big 50s? Twinkle Khanna has insights. The actor, in her latest blog, has written about the process of ageing–in her trademark wit– and why it scares people.
Writing for her blog in The Times of India, Twinkle Khanna wrote that at the start of her 50th year, she grew “weary” of women her age talking about ageing “gracefully”.
The actor-author said this summer, over WhatsApp chat, she “boasted” how she has stopped getting annoyed and has a of patience thanks to her yoga. But her “iridescent bubble popped” as soon as she had a routine blood test that stated that her testosterone had “plummeted to zero.”
“This news hit me harder than finding grey hair in my eyebrow. For a large part of my life, I had been energetically coasting on such high levels of testosterone that in the ’90s, when woke was just the antonym of sleep, I used to make jokes like, ‘I am more of a man than most men I meet, and with the balls as well.’ Now, I was left with low energy and a few leftover jokes,” she wrote.
The actor wrote she initially tried ignoring that her “big birthday” was around the corner. “When that didn’t work, I began pre-empting it by telling people I was 50. On one occasion, my daughter corrected me, ‘No, Mama you are still 49.’”
Twinkle then detailed how she was having an existential crisis and revealed that she sat with a calculator and created a “rough timeline”, estimating how her life would be if she lived till 85. She had to first minus the 50 years that she has already lived.
“Then I had to multiply 8 hours a day into 365 days into the approximate 35 years left, because that’s the time I would spend sleeping, and then minus that sum from my timeline, which left me with a mere 24 years of living ahead. I only felt better when I recalled a famous dialogue recited by someone whose eyes crinkled just like mine, ‘Babumoshai, zindagi badi honi chahiye, lambi nahi,’” she wrote, referencing her actor father Rajesh Khanna’s famous lines from the film Anand.
The actor concluded her blog writing that more than the actual ageing process, people are scared by the “prospect” of it. “Ageing, I have slowly come to believe, is only a battle if you try to fight the current,” she added.
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