Turning 40 - It’s All About the Journey

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I turned 40 yesterday (August 1st) and have to confess to feeling very strange in the couple of days leading up to it.  I suppose contemplative and philosophical - the sort of feeling that you can get when someone close to you dies and for a time you have a different angle on life and reclassify many of the things that you had come to think were important to you.  Inevitably normality gradually returns and I imagine it will do so on this occasion too.

I have nothing to feel unhappy with turning 40 - I have a great life, but there is something about it that is affecting me.  I am thinking back to events that were 10, 20 even 25 and 30 years ago that I remember and amazing myself dealing with blocks of time that are not insignificant and that I have personally lived.

 A friend of mine who is 43 now trying to cheer me up mentioned that 40 was the new 30, and I do feel this had a thread of truth to it so I am not going to spend my time being morose - I suppose I am more intrigued by a state of mind washing over a normally very clear-thinking individual which is purely the arrival at this milestone.  Another mitigating factor is that I have certainly done some hair-brain things in my time and it’s actually quite an achievement in the light of some of those escapades to have achieved it at all.

Anyway I shall continue to contemplate on my new status.  My life is brilliant, my age just begins with a 4! Alastair