Wayne02
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Ok, game over. You win.
Excitement in life approaching middle age
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Spotteddog
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The only thing I worried about at 40, was that the statutes of limitations for all the s**t I'd done when I was 35 hadn't run out yet?
I sort of remember my 40s, which for me began nearly a quarter century ago. What I remember is that I felt better, smarter, and more in control of everything in my 40s than in any decade before or since. I still have some residual benefit from having done things right in that decade rather than continuing with the slothful disengagement that characterized the earlier decades. Need to reactivate that program, I guess.
Had one kind of psychological hiccup in my mid-40s after falling out of a tree I had no business being up in and breaking a shin bone in one leg and shattering my heel in the other. What an idiot I was. Just because I felt like a teenager was no excuse for not realizing that I wouldn't bounce like one. 45 is a good caliber but a bad age; gotta be careful out there in the chronological wilderness.
I will be flashing my time-travel passport and crossing the border into 64 come Thursday. I feel older than I did a decade ago -- but still not as old as I look in recent photos from family gatherings.
David Wilson
Had one kind of psychological hiccup in my mid-40s after falling out of a tree I had no business being up in and breaking a shin bone in one leg and shattering my heel in the other. What an idiot I was. Just because I felt like a teenager was no excuse for not realizing that I wouldn't bounce like one. 45 is a good caliber but a bad age; gotta be careful out there in the chronological wilderness.
I will be flashing my time-travel passport and crossing the border into 64 come Thursday. I feel older than I did a decade ago -- but still not as old as I look in recent photos from family gatherings.
David Wilson
Just keep doing what you always have as long as you feel like it.
I am lucky--I'm 62 and i feel like a kid, I don't go to the doctor, never worn glasses, no aches or pains, ride my motorcycle all summer, eat what i want--and I ain't as fat as most of my pals!
Don't stop to think about your age--you can become obsessed.
And...
I DO NOT get the "senior coffee" at MD's (or eat that crap, either), nor do I accept senior discounts.
It's a mind game, kid.
Gotta keep that tropical state of mind!
Mahalo!!!
Tim
I am lucky--I'm 62 and i feel like a kid, I don't go to the doctor, never worn glasses, no aches or pains, ride my motorcycle all summer, eat what i want--and I ain't as fat as most of my pals!
Don't stop to think about your age--you can become obsessed.
And...
I DO NOT get the "senior coffee" at MD's (or eat that crap, either), nor do I accept senior discounts.
It's a mind game, kid.
Gotta keep that tropical state of mind!
Mahalo!!!
Tim
flop-shank
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Brother, truer words were never spoken.
Vulcan Bob
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Enjoy the good life while you can! Unless you are lucky you may run into the cant eat this cant do that crap in about 15 to 20 years!
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jframe
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All great advice. I agree about the eating habits. They suck sometimes, especially since the wife works odd midnight shifts and I work days, so regular meals are a little tough sometimes. We walk with our neighbor sometimes; she's just 21 and sort of makes me realize that it is a little tougher to keep up. My dad, who is 79 and in GREAT shape, tells me I've got a long way to go. Hope he's right. I ain't really down real bad about turning 40 soon, because as my Dad says, it damn sure beats the alternative.
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