少し年上の人と、更年期の話になりました。更年期は若年性もあるというし、わたしも時間の問題でしょうね。症状は人により大きな差があるといいますし、いったいどんなものなんだろうと、まだ経験したことがないからこそ不安がないとは言い切れません。
そして、その更年期を抜けたあと、体調や感情面がどうなるのだろうという好奇心、といっていいのでしょうか、それもあります。多くの人が１０代で生理が始まり、面倒なことですがそれがなければ子どもを産むことがないという人体の営み（人間だけではないんですけど）を続け、いよいよそれともお別れし、清々しいという側面もあるはずだと思っています。
これだけ生きてきて、まだ体験していないことってあるんですよね。来たるべき日のために、精神も身体も鍛えておかなければ、と思っています。
As I was talking to someone who's a bit older than me, we started to talk about menopause. There is premenopause as well so it's a matter of time for me to have it. Symptoms vary depending on people, and since I've never had it, there is of course some anxiety about it.
And there is some curiosity, if I may put it that way, about how my body and emotion will turn after the menopause. Many women started having menstruations in their teens. A menstruation is painful both literally and metaphorically but without it, we wouldn't have babies, which is part of human nature (or other living things too), have kept it for some time, and now it's time to say good-bye. Shouldn't it have an aspect of freshly starting over a life? I'm assuming there is that aspect.
There is more that I haven't experienced after having lived all these years. I'd like to train my body and soul to be ready that day to come.
