I am too old for this...the 40 plus thread.

39 now and staring down the barrel of 40 in November, and I'm in pretty much the same place as I was when I was 30. Which is not necessarly the greatest place to be. On the whole I'm a bit more chilled out about the impending Significant Birthday than I was ten years ago... Which may be a sign of increasing maturity or just resignation to my fate.

you can always ask Mariella Frostrup for advice and be sure of a sympathetic response:

Sex, cigars, travel - his 40th birthday celebrations have gone on all year. But as his friends leave, the rest of his life is looking like a hangover from hell

People can give you a lot of helpful advice about passing the big 4 0 but in my opinion this shit sucks and fuck anybody who thinks otherwise.

Get out there and start celebrating the fact that you still have another 50 per cent of your life to come. And try replacing the 'we' in the penultimate sentence with an 'I'. Talk about making a mountain out of a molehill....

There's a degree of self-pity about your plaintive cries that makes it hard to be sympathetic.

And yet Mariella on being 40 herself:

Reaching 40 didn't sneak up on me as I'd been promised. It hit me, head on, like the Eurostar at full speed. One minute I was in my early thirties, thinking that there was still so much to achieve. Next, I'm 40 and wondering why I'd wasted a decade trying so hard

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39 now and staring down the barrel of 40 in November september.

i don't have any big hang-ups about it that i know of. could be because having two little kids keeps me too busy to think about much. 50 might be harder because i have a feeling i'm going to emerge from the fog of parenthood and be like, 'wait, i'm 50???'

44 here. coping. no kids for me, thanx. but i do have two wonderful teenage nieces; they buy me CDs (lol) and shit. it's awesome.

carpal tunnel syndrome
lower back pain
acid reflux
need bifocals

yeah lol my body is starting to fall to bits and twenty year-olds think I'm some kind of space monster. this is awesome!

it can only get funnier.

xp
need to stop kidnapping and dissecting them on your dining table then.

I'm not gonna play this stiff upper lip bullshit is all. Fuck getting old.

also usu asleep by 11

eh, it happens.

xp

damn, dude, i usually hit the hay an hour or two past midnight.

noodle if you've got ppl that love you you've made it in life.

45 was a tougher birthday than 40.

^not entirely true.

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noodle if you've got ppl that love you you've made it in life.

yeah, this is greeting-card hooey.

I rarely think of myself as 35 years old. It's just a number and I don't recognize myself in this. (This could very well mean, I'm really getting dumber. Hard to achieve but, if it is the case, WHAT an achievement!) So I'll be 40 in about 4/5 years. I do hope so! Woohooo, let it come! I love 4s.

I'm about to turn 38 but hey.

I just noticed that I'm getting grey pubic hairs!

youngsters these days.

x-post -- Well after you started letting them grow in after assiduously shaving them due to your porn career, something had to show up.

too olde to pron, too young to die.

For some reason didn't realise I was older than Ned or Nath. Not saying lol you guys old, just thought you were a couple of years up on me. THIS ISN'T HELPING

one thing that helps me is i'm a little under the median age for my office. having lots of 40s, 50s and 60s around me -- and only one sub-30-yr-old in the place -- makes me feel comparatively spry and youthful.

Whereas I mostly work with 16 year-olds.

It's coming for me...

yeah I'll hit the big three-five this year but my "friends" irl these days are mostly professional and they're all old, like fifties and sixties old. So I still feel like a little kid compared to them.

"For some reason didn't realise I was older than Ned or Nath. Not saying lol you guys old, just thought you were a couple of years up on me. THIS ISN'T HELPING"

this is how i feel 'bout all you guys! haha

to celebrate, I would like you all to know that I think Newt Gingrich has some really good points, and that from now on I intend to pay for everything in spare change, which I will keep in a ziplock bag in my fanny pack.

Happy celebrations, Oilyrags!

Thank you. I disapprove of the music and clothing of teenagers.

Hello dere, midlife crisis.

grey hairs really coming in now :-\
― velko

don't think i'd fancy knowing on which body parts exactly ;)

Turning 40 on Monday. No fear, no regrets so far. Am looking forward to - hopefully! finally! - quitting smoking and curbing the social drinking to a minimum. But still gonna enjoy
myself as much as possible before I have to buy that walker.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_29#Births

GK CHesterson!
Bob Hope!
TH White!
JFK!
Iannis Xenakis!
Josef Von Sternberg!
Danny Elfman!
Melissa Etheridge!
Rupert Everett!
Noel Gallagher!

But best of all…

JOHN HICKLEY JR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Congrats!

http://i1.iofferphoto.com/img/item/711/907/16/an14sBBtun3Cimg.jpg

Happy Almost Birthday, you squalling infant. SHARE YOUR CAKE.

in the last couple of weeks i have had to learn what a 'spasm of the facet joint' is (the phrase : "fucking painful" is apt), and developed an unexpected obsession for miles davis 69-74 era.
i've never really felt over 40, but these two additions to my life have certainly brought the fact into focus.
having said that, i am the more content, calm, and satisfied with life than i have ever been.

happy birthday oilyrags.

thx, y'all. As soon as it hits five, I'm going mallwalking!

Get there by four for the Early Bird Special!

I am very much on the young part of this thread, but stuff like this makes me feel like I'm 100.

http://www.retronaut.com/2013/10/people-using-cincinnati-public-library-card-catalog/

Look at those troglodytes, having to open and close drawers to find their library books!

This is the reason I'm exercising now. I mean at age 34, not right now this minute - although I suppose I'm exercising my fingers. Put it another way, I'm doing it because I'm lazy, and it'll be a lot harder if I wait until I'm 40 to start getting fit again.

― snoball, Friday, August 29, 2008 3:29 PM (6 years ago)

^^^ ranks as one of the best decisions I've ever made. I'm 40 now, don't even want to think about how out of shape I'd be if I hadn't got off my backside.

ooohhhh boy is my years of not exercising and wearing the orthotics in my shoes im supposed to, catching up with me now. So many bits hurt.

Had my first migraine (I think?) on Friday. I know they strike persons of any age, but I'm lumping it in with all my other old guy ailments. Hope I never have to live through another one, though. Goddamn. Brutal.

Im dreading the likely-soon-approaching "change of lyfe" cos it comes early for all the women in mi family. YAY.

i will be 40 in 2016. already seeing random grey hairs, some minor wrinkling, and a herniated disc, but i've had that for 10 years.

my super-hilarious running joke is that i'm going to write a weird al-style parody of "everybody hurts" called "everything hurts."

you know what i'm too old for? "progressive" political marches that never change a damn thing.