...Being 40....

 

...take heart my friend...behind my light-hearted postings there is i suppose, the message that getting older is not perhaps what you think it will be, trust me, its never too late for positive things in life to happen, you will preserve a youthful outlook and as long as that remains, any probs you experience now will be dealt with.....its not such a bad thing...

 

....i can relate to what you have said....i experienced many difficulties when i was younger, ...the pressure of 'doing' something or being 'someone'.....but now, i can understand those times much better but i have not lost that essential feeling of youthfulness....yeah, the body declines slightly, but its manageable........the main difference for me between being young and old, is that getting older means that you get to know yourself better as the time passes, but that is a good thing.....a lot of the pressures of being young is the fact that you have often not had that many years to fathom out just exactly who you are yet and gain many of the fresh perspectives that come with age.......but it comes, it will.... and hell, there is plenty of time and years ahead of you, and my recollections show that being older does not necessarily mean that you have look back with regret or that your inner self changes so drastically that you somehow 'lose' the greater part of the youth you were.....

 

....there is also no need to 'rush' getting older either, responsibility is in my opinion one of the hardest aspects of life to take on board, and it generally comes with life experience, afterall, being a tad irresponsible when your younger is a fine way to learn about being responsible, its a learning curve, a process that will take its course, and in the meantime, hang in there, try hard to let things go, be yourself and try not let anybody take that away from you or make you be anything you do not want to be.....it does all click eventually...

 

...apologies if this reads like a lecture, because, hand on my heart, its not....

 

..take care and all the best....AoO....

I've only reached 40 three weeks ago. I'm too young to know something about it.