Death begins at 40

Is what people really mean when they say Life begins at 40.


Its just that little harder to get out of bed in the morning and you notice the difference, you notice your brain doesnt work as fast as it used to, and you dont look as good as you used to, unless you are a non fat guy that is

Popping E's are out, you can actually feel them fry your brain, one doobie makes you stupid for a week, and booze just gives you a headache.

Add to that you find yourself suddenly surrounded by a whole bunch of people bitter and angry simply really cos no one wants to fuck them anymore, or they couldnt be stuffed putting in the effort trying, so they start to talk more about super exciting shit like politics or religion or make out like an extra 10 minute public transport delay is as hanus as someone raping your dog.

As you may have guessed its a whole lot of overcompensating for an increased awareness of ones mortality, getting old sucks, you have nothing to look forward to.

And you start to smell bad as well

 

Excited about your next birthday, eh?

 

I've heard its 50 since thats when your bones start to weaken and muscles tighten, followed by your mind if you have been sober most of your life. Im not 50 so ill have to wait and see.

 

I'm 41 and don't have any of those problems.

 

Hahahah I love when old people complain about age, makes me feel like ill always be 20

 

Really....

It makes me think, holy shit, the good part of my life's slightly more than half over, and all I've done is fuck up.

 

10 years ago a man, a friend of mine 10 years my senior said to me that he can really see now what they mean when they say life begins at 40. despite going through a divorce and struggling to pay his mortgage/pay to bring up his kids he seemed happy to be 40.

I'm not 40 yet, but it's not far off but I think that I sort of understand maybe what people mean when they say that.

I think you just get to a certain age, and you know that your mortality is creeping up on you and that you better make the best of things because old age is just round the corner. So you reach a point where all the stupid things that concerned you so much when you were younger don't matter anymore, and in a sense you are free to just be yourself and it doesn't matter what anyone else thinks because (a) they're probably a **** and (b) you're going to be either dead or too old to care before long anyway.

Some people are like that all their lives. I wasn't. For the first 10 years of my adult life I struggled socially, up until about 25 I found it difficult to even talk socially within a group of more than 3 or 4 people. I would clam up sometimes, and it wasn't really until I was about 30 that I started feel like I could hold my end up in with any degree of confidence in most social situations.

Now I don't give a fuck. I'll anything and everything to anybody. Whatever is on my mind, and actually I don't think people like that. But I'm going to say it anyway.

i think that's what they mean when they say life begins at 40, you find a new sense of confidence in yourself, perhaps it's a default mechanism that stems from the fact that you have a seniority over most other people because of your age.

But getting back to the OP, it is also sadly the beginning of the end, and I'll probably find that out earlier than most because of the damage I have done to my body through alcoholism and smoking too many cigarettes. I used them to make up for my social ineptitude when I was younger.

I see myself spending my final years someone in India, when I get my inheritance I will go there and just disappear I think. I wont be the first to do that i think.

 

Oh you ignorant slut.

I was 20 just a few days ago it seems. Now I'm almost 26 and I don't know where the past couple years have disappeared. I just wake up complaining about kids on my lawn.

 

I felt like I was 21 for a decade.

I swear I was a teen for about a blink.

Hopefully you have a long 26 to even things out =)

 

"I hope I die before I get old"


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=594WLzzb3JI"]YouTube - ‪The Who - My Generation‬‏

 

yeah.. Im pretty happy being 18.

I´ll just stay this age if thats ok with everyone..

 

Bout a day and a half.

 

I said that too, I'm sure everyone says or thinks that at some point. But age comes like a thief in the night, without warning or any sign that it's here. It's inevitable.

I used to turn my amp up to 11, now 2 hurts my ears...

I used to go to bed at 5 am and wake up for noon, now I get cranky if I'm up past midnight and some days I wake up at 5 am...

 

not looking forward to it..

 

Eh, you're mind probably matures in exciting new ways.

Still isn't worth having droopy balls, but whatev.

 

I'm 58-and it's taken me ten minutes to become this age,it seems.

You know you're old when you start saying "in MY day..."
or
"That's not music-you can't hear the words!"

The other giveaway is being totally unable to rise from the sofa without grunting.
[and DON'T pretend you can,coz you KNOW you can't]
Or you bend to tie your bootlaces and go "Oof" as you straighten up.

It burns me to think I ran across the Falklands carrying an 80lb bergen on my back-then got stuck into a fight.
These days I don't 'do' running-nothing is that urgent.
I used to box for the Navy and took all sorts of compulsory M.A. training.
These days I don't even get angry over things I'd once have drawn blood over.
[just can't be bothered,if I'm honest]
Tho' having said that,I DID have a disciplinary hearing at work in March for sitting some trappy bastard on his arse when he started screaming abuse at me for reversing into his 'private' road-so I'm not quite finished yet.

However,that aside;Led Zep,Black Sabbath,Deep Purple,CCR-[that's Creedence Clearwater Revival,for you children]-REAL music.

All this House,Garage,HipHop stuff.....yerwot?

Now-I'm going to make some nice milky hot chocolate and top up my hot water bottle.
[if I can remember where I left it.....]

 

There are a few Pros

Pros:

1. You do get this weird thing where you find yourself more easily fascinated by dull shit you never paid attention to before; Sunsets, flea markets, flower shows, little bottles of olive oil with weird things in them - so there is that kind of return to innocence

2. You have a lot more money to you, especially if you never did the kid thing. I cant believe how much I get paid now and most of the time I just push the work on to someone else and do fuck all

3. Middle aged, male and over 6ft, everyone tends to do what you say or at least tune in when you talk, as if you have a clue, its bizarre

Cons:

1. Everyone bitches more about stuff thats irrelevant. Theres more affirmation stuff going on, chics calling each other gorgeous every other minute. Guys reinforcing how great a dad they are all the time, pretending their kids listen to them

2. Theres this whole - one act for kids and family, one act for strangers thing, so the heteros get a lot more creepier, swingers, wife swapping, affairs etc - you have no idea what your parents are getting up to, and usually those acting most goody two shoes to the kids are the ones with the most to cover up. Where as the gays seem to be the opposite, tank has run dry so all time spent at aboveforementioned flea markets, or the cats start to get pedicures, book clubs or the dog gets a diamond collar and full set of accessories

3. Most get fatter and uglier and smell bad

 

if it mean anything i may have lived my best the last 2 week..

 

And I thought I didn't give a shit about turning thirty...Now I'm dancing on the flame of fourty with my arms in the air shouting -Bring it on the fuck on!!

 

Thing to remember is that all these definitions, all this Life begins/ends at 40 stuff, is just someone else's viewpoint. Its not some law that you have to abide by.

Everyone is an individual, or at least should be.

My general rule of thumb is that old age is 10 years older than me, so while I may age I've no intention of being old. Though of course that's just a personal viewpoint and not a law.



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