Even timid and shy women as they grow older can reach out and increase their small circles of acquaintances. Those acquaintances may well become good friends, which is an added bonus.
* Joining groups of other women across a wide range of interests and subjects can bring with it pleasurable times and interconnections. You don't have to like everybody there, and everybody there doesn't have to like you. Sometimes you can even sit at the side of things that are going on and still feel a part of it, even though you don't really participate. The sound of happy chatter going on over your head can sometimes cause you to feel as though you're importance to the group That sort of chatter going on around you is very therapeutic. Think of the National Seniors, the local CWA (yes, I know, everyone thinks they're old-fashioned, but they certainly have come of age, and now enjoy lots of younger women within their ranks); Neighborhood/Community Houses; some of the service clubs; church groups and clubs. The list of almost endless.
* Volunteering can be an understated form of relaxation, involvement and interest. It can take you out of your dreary dull boring daily existing and present new opportunities, at whatever age. Hospital auxilliaries, charity shops, visiting people in hospital, being on a small council within a church, local neighborhood house, Probus, and any of the service clubs, can open a whole new vista of enjoyment. Interaction with other people does a lot of good, even though sometimes you may feel it hasn't achieved anything. What it has achieved is that you have gotten out of the house, interacted with people, and forgotten your dull and boring existence.
(To be continued with other suggestions .........)
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