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this year myself and the majority of my friends are turning 40. I am so sick and tired of hearing ’40 is the new 30′ and ‘you’re only as young as you feel’. Well I feel like shit. My joints ache especially when it rains or snows. I am developing lactose intolerance. I get winded after activities I could breeze through in my 20s and 30s. I can’t eat spicy food anymore. I have a very low tolerance for the ‘young’uns’ which to me now is anyone under 30. I find the volume at the movie theatres way too loud. I’m getting crankier, fussier and am realizing how short life is and I’m starting to understand the term ‘midlife crisis’:. So enjoy your youth while you have it and don’t believe all that advertising shit that shows 4o somethings flouncing around like they are 20. It just ain’t so. —lordy lordy
This article appears in Feb 12-18, 2015.
Well then, Death becomes you!
Seriously now, with all that shit aside don’t you find that Life is just far easier?
We all would like to have the wisdom at 40 and the body, energy and spirit of 20. Mourn that (quickly) and move on. I’d rather a sore back than angst and poverty…
I’m afraid that the time of being and feeling 40 has long slipped by this ole carcass of mine….” sigh”.
But, I still fight the good fight, by land or air.
I fucking love being 40+. Fuck everyone and everything. I put my time in, now I get to coast to the finish line!!
Do you suffer from excessive flatulence? Do you find that others view this as a social turn-off? Why not take to drink?
I developed lactose intolerance at 20, so you’re lucky.
Wow, 40 and you’re already gimped up. It isn’t too late. Take up bicycling or swimming and keep at it, easier on the joints. I’ve got a few years on you and am more fit now than at 25 (and feel like 25).
Wait until your hearing and eyesight start to go, then you’ll have something to bitch about.
good grief. that aging shit didn’t start til I was mid 50’s.
however, once it did it was the hope landslide.
Your 40’s are your best years. Still young enough to enjoy things, but smarter and richer than you were in your 20’s. Since I turned 40 people started paying me more money and promoting me for no reason at all. Seriously. I don’t know jack shit, but I guess I’ve been alive long enough that people just assume I know what I’m talking about. The old sausage doesn’t quite work like it use to, but hey, the other benefits make up for that.
Oh, hey OB–40+ rocks–and I’m not just saying that to sound like an ad for vitamin supplements.
It really, really does. Your 40s are the decade where you get to shed your old skin, leave behind a lot of stresses and expectations of your 20s and 30s, and start living for yourself instead of for someone else.
Turning 40 is one of the very best milestones of life.
You get more respect at work, people treat you better in stores and restaurants, you have more confidence in how you relate to people, you have more freedom to pursue your own dreams, and you care a whole lot less about what other people think.
It’s like a giant reset button on your life.
Your life is waiting, OB, you just have to show up.
(I will agree with you on one point, that the promo that they play at Cineplex depicting the entire history of flight and which ends in a warp-speed blast into outer space IS ridiculously loud. That is just a fact.)
Yikes, you’re only 40 and you’re falling apart already?
I’m well into my 40s and I feel fine, despite being kinda fat.
mmmmm nachos. Extra spicy.
Cripes OP you’re making 40 the new 80. I think you should invest in an exercise regime. At the age of 40, it should make you feel like you’re in your 30s again. It’s also a good hedge against premature aging both physically and mentally.
Holy shit and your only 40……way to early