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I had no idea what a major milestone turning 40 was going to be. Before my bday, I never thought about my age and mentally assumed I was a 20-30 something. On my 40th Bday, i totally freaked out. It finally hit me that my life was half way over and that I am over the hill. I have a lot less patience for bs. Has anyone else had a sudden midlife freak out. How did you deal with it?
I had no idea what a major milestone turning 40 was going to be. Before my bday, I never thought about my age and mentally assumed I was a 20-30 something. On my 40th Bday, i totally freaked out. It finally hit me that my life was half way over and that I am over the hill. I have a lot less patience for bs. Has anyone else had a sudden midlife freak out. How did you deal with it?
I had no idea what a major milestone turning 40 was going to be. Before my bday, I never thought about my age and mentally assumed I was a 20-30 something. On my 40th Bday, i totally freaked out. It finally hit me that my life was half way over and that I am over the hill. I have a lot less patience for bs. Has anyone else had a sudden midlife freak out. How did you deal with it?
I had no idea what a major milestone turning 40 was going to be. Before my bday, I never thought about my age and mentally assumed I was a 20-30 something. On my 40th Bday, i totally freaked out. It finally hit me that my life was half way over and that I am over the hill. I have a lot less patience for bs. Has anyone else had a sudden midlife freak out. How did you deal with it?
I've been thinking about my age ever since I was in grade school. Remember first thinking about how it would be 10 years from that point when I would be in my 20s in 7th or 8th grade. It seemed to be a pattern of mine, I would look from the point wherever I then was ten years forward and ponder it, as in what I may be doing and how I would be ten years older.
My realization that I was half-way done with my life was when I was 35. Some people can still be doing well when they're 70, but that seems to be the time nowadays when you realize you're getting up there. Even in your 60s you can generally be thought of as a "young" old. Not really old old, if that makes any sense.
For me, I do not believe this life is all there is so my view of aging doesn't have a finite end to it. I figure I have another 35 years or so, on average (I'm nearing 38 now) and it will be the end of this life for me. Of course, that can happen at any time or it can be another 50 or so years. It would be good for one to be healthy throughout all of it, and you should strive to stay active mentally and physically.
I loved my 40's, I was in my prime, knew a lot more, vibrant and yet old enough. Wait till you approach 80, which is where I'm headed this year. Many think about keep their minds sharp.
Yeah, at 40 I could do the whole "40 is the new 30", but at 50, it's just 50. /lol
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I freaked out at age 27, and then at 43, which led me each time to deep soul searching. I'm in my late forties now, and I am absolutely in love with my life (and my age!).
I love my silvering hair, I adore the kind of relationships I have with men now as opposed to those who sought me in my youth, my life doesn't feel half over...it feels hugely expanded.
Perhaps I'm an anomaly, but, I just love that I'm older. I don't know if this joy will end at some age, who can say, but right now, I just can't wait for the rest of my life, and I have zero envy of those who are younger or just look younger.
I can't really explain exactly why I feel this way, it's just my truth...I just started consciously examining the beliefs the majority of people seem to hold by default, that increasing years in a female body is some kind of failure. I became very consciously aware of something I call "the penis lense", which is where I unconsciously viewed myself through male sexuality, which is the root basis for female evaluation in society. Once I became consciously aware of that perspective, the whole paradigm began to dissolve. I was viewing myself in such an incredibly limited way...and viewing men in a limited way, too, who can be so much more than their adolescent sexuality (although many of them don't know it!) I didn't have to change society...I just had to change my own belief system, and stop subscribing to what I intuitively knew was BS.
Now that I simply don't share in that belief, my life is pretty fun and exciting, and it keeps getting better.
35, because I was losing a tooth at the time. I had nightmares; I woke up in the middle of the night knowing the clock was ticking, counted my teeth and checked I still had hair. Not a flicker since then at any age.
All you young people freaking out..WHY...it's life. I'm not freaking out at reaching 80 soon.
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