by yknot 33 Replies latest jw experiences
I'll be 35 next year. My friend decided to have her wedding on my 35 birthday. I decided to pretend the party is just for me. I really wanted a birthday party for my 35 birthday. A real one with presents and cake and dancing and everything. I'm going to get it too. It'll just be at her wedding.
As far as turning 40 is concerned who cares. Age is how you feel. I still feel 16. I'm told I look 24.
40... 30 ..... if you get busy livin' you dont have time to worry about how old ya are...
Hill
My hubby is turning 40 next year. This apparently is nagging at him pretty bad.
It's about accepting what you've settled for and trying to find satisfaction. It's the first time most men really look backward, rather than forward, and take stock. The Glorious Victories and the Glorious Defeats. Nearly all are disappointed as now the impact of time, or rather the lack of it now, is really felt.
As for me, I've been working the last couple of years on accepting death. Nowhere but here would anyone understand what I mean when I say I truly thought I would never die. Coming to terms with that absolute is a difficult thing. I'm coming to truly understand that one day I won't wake up. I won't know what happens next. I'm surprised that I'm not as afraid as I thought I would be, frankly some days I look forward to it, but the thing I'm stuck on at the moment is wrapping my mind around what happens afterward. Not having a spiritual center leaves me at a bit of a loss for belief. The idea of a Christian does worry me (I can just picture all these black marks a judgmental god would have against me) and I'm finding atheism is most comforting about the Hereafter.
Anyway, just one 40-something guy's perspective.
Chris
For me 41, about three months of it, was hardest for me. I looked so young in my 30's that it didn't matter.
