I’m not a big fan of Taylor Swift’s songs. She’s a girl of a certain age and is more concerned with: players, haters, fakers and heart breakers. All that dating stuff. I will say this about Ms. Swift. She is a very good business woman and a great philanthropist. For Christmas she sent her super fans presents. In one she included a check for almost $2000 to pay off a girl’s student loans. With that kind of stuff, she rocks. Thank goodness she is a great role model for our young girls. I began to think about what a woman of a certain age would write about now that she is “beyond” Ms. Swift’s age. What I would want to “shake off”? ” Baby I’m just gonna shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, I’m just gonna shake it off, shake it off…”
A guy who cut me off on the freeway and shot me the finger… shake it off.
A woman with the cell phone on during American Sniper… shake it off.
My spouse trying to tell me how to do something that he has no clue how to do…shake it off.
Young man walks to a business’ door before me and walks through and let’s it close in my face.
A longtime friend makes a harmless, onetime but hurtful comment…shake it off.
This list, Ms. Swift, can go on and on…
Things you can’t shake off…
Call back because of your recent mammogram…
The purr of a kitten…
Pitbull’s Fireball bouncing around in your head…(Yes, even women of a certain age love Pitbull.)
That extra 20 pounds…
The death of a parent/sibling/friend…
hot flash, hot FLASH, HOT FLASH!
This list, Ms. Swift can go on and on…
What are some things you can or can not “shake off”? Well, apparently a Dover police officer found his own way to “shake it off”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XFBUM8dMqw
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Great es.ma..s.yy own ruminations about the slippage of television fantasy into the real world has led me here. They used to call belief in the unreal psychosis. Are we all psychotic now?Jeez, this is scary.