I just turned 40 years old

Um still running marathons at the age of 48, I took running up at the age of 40 to prove to myself that I'm not old yet.... Still going strong ☺️
 
chaparral said:
That makes me feel really old knowing i was already 26 in 1996 :(
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I remember 1996 seeming more magical. Better warmer summers as well. Plus the charts seemed to be so much better back then. Oasis, Blur, Robert Miles, George Michael... Crazy to also think John Major was still Prime Minister then.
 
Aptly timed thread for me.

I turn 35 Jan next year. I've always considered (no idea why) 70 to be 'properly' old. I'm halfway there.

I've never been one of those 'by this age I'll have this and that.....', but I'm really thinking about where I am at 35.
 
V F said:
I remember 1996 seeming more magical. Better warmer summers as well. Plus the charts seemed to be so much better back then. Oasis, Blur, Robert Miles, George Michael... Crazy to also think John Major was still Prime Minister then.
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I owned a boat back then and am sure i remember being out in it most days in the summer months
 
I'm not adding this year to my age.
I didn't use it !

I have finally figured out what I want when I get older. Younger!

As i've got older I thought I was starting to get lazy. but it turns out I am just being energy efficient.

I don't want to say i am old and worn out. but I make sure I am nowhere near the curb on dustbin day.

I have come to the conclusion that I am a reasonably intelligent person who does moderately stupid things on a semi regular basis.

There is no such thing as a grouchy old person. The truth is, you stop being polite and start being honest.

I am responsible for what I say, not what you understand.

Sometimes the Universe puts you in the same situations again to see if you're still a nobhead

I hate it when I see a old person and then realise we went to school together.

It's not my age that bothers me. It's the side effects.

When I was young, I was poor. But after years of hard work I am no longer young.

Struggling to get your wife's attention. Just sit down and look comfortable

As I have grown older, I've learned that pleasing everyone is impossible, but peeing them off is a piece of cake.

She says I keep pushing her buttons. If that were true, I would have found the "mute" button by now.
 
I'll be 50 next year which I'm pretty excited about because I'm supremely confident, i've put a lot of work into my parts and i think that's just gonna show but it's also the intent that i'm carrying, i'm intending to perform better than everyone else and we were jump rope gazers in the middle of the night.
 
Zatoichi.uK said:
Its weird that secondary school was only 5 or 6 years. It seems like forever at the time. The last 5 years went by in a blink.
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I guess our perception of aging is on some sort of logarithmic scale, i.e. our perception is based on around what proportion of our (self-conscious) life that is. 5 years at secondary school is probably about 40% of your life at that point, considering you don't really have much memory before the age of 2. And when you start secondary school at 11, the idea of being there for at least 5 years feels kind of crazy, it's a bit like saying to a 40 year old "ok you will do this for the next 20 years".

I was thinking of this earlier in terms of gaming, there's a game I've played a long time but I took a couple of breaks from it. One of those breaks lasted six years which sounds a really long time, I can't really fathom how that came to pass.

I'm sure I've commented on this before but perhaps the strangest thing about being in my 40s is that when I was younger I thought being that old meant you were super serious and would not be focused on childish pursuits like playing computer games and just generally having fun. Now part of that may be because gaming is a relatively new phenomena so when I was growing up, people in their 40s wouldn't have experienced gaming in childhood, so hadn't 'caught the bug' so to speak (which is different now as people of my generation grew up with gaming). But it's more than that, just in general I don't "feel like I'm 40s" or rather what I thought I should feel like when I hit this age. I'm kind of still waiting to grow up if that makes sense?

Don't get me wrong, I've got the family, the house, and all the responsibilities that brings. Physically I've aged with the grey hair and even hairs growing out of my ears (something I wasn't prepared for!). But I was quite a responsible child anyway, and if anything, my risk appetite is higher now than when I was a teenager. In some ways I don't think I really started living life until my mid-20s so it feels like I'm still in that 'breakout' phase of life rather than 'middle-aged'.

I suppose one thing I have found after hitting 40 is I've started to question my career a lot more, perhaps yearning for a bit more meaning and enjoyment from what I do. There's times I think that I'll want to reach retirement and be able to look back on something with a bit of pride, a sense that I've done something meaningful to help people or society rather than just being a slave to the wage.
 
I'm 38 next week, then the count down to 40 begins and I am looking forward to being 40 :) As I know, I be physically, mentally and financially better off (I should be mortgage free by then).

As long as I keep my health in check, martial arts twice a week, gym everyday, 3 mile runs 3 times at week. I know I be fine and I have nothing to worry about with age.
 
HangTime said:
I'm kind of still waiting to grow up if that makes sense?
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I've accepted that it'll probably never happen for me :D

I haven't settled down and had a family or anything like that, so I haven't even got that to provide an illusion of adulthood. I always imagined that I'd reach a point in life where it would seem like the appropriate time for that sort of thing, but so far I haven't felt that way. I was talking about this with my dad and sister a while back and my dad said "kids just sort of happen, you know?" and we both disagreed (my sister also doesn't have her own family). Nearly all of my friends have kids, and for them it did seem to just happen as well. I probably overthink the whole thing a bit, but then having children isn't a priority for me at all so there's no reason to try to change really.
 
Turned 36 recently. I have a house and car but don't have a girlfriend or children. Kinda bothered. Kinda not. Don't think I'll bother. Might just hook up with some women in a few years that's got some older kids. I love my 4 year old nephew but can't see myself having one


I'm going to start earning some decent money and go on some travels and do up my house. Buy an electric car perhaps in a few years. I've had enough of doing drugs and getting drunk.:cool:
 
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