Is it taboo to discuss your age on your blog? If so, I’m engaging in a major faux pas today as I announce that it’s my birthday and I’m turning 40. Woo-hoo! Let’s here it for all the middle age guys out there!
I’ve always heard life starts going down hill after turning 40. I’m not sure why people say that. Is it because the average life span in America is 78, so in the mind of most people, your half way home? Is it because people believe the “fun” times of young adulthood – like partying on spring break or at Mardi Gras – are over?
Or is it perhaps that your body starts to catch up with you as more aches and pains come each morning as you roll out of bed?
Now that I’m here, I’m feeling like I don’t want to buy into the pessimism of what I’ve heard.
Thoughts on Turning 40
In the past year, I’ve done three new and remarkable things: