littlewonder
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ORIGINAL: littlewonder just turned 40 and having difficulty coming to terms with it. I know this sounds really cliche but my life (the way I was meant to live it) really began at 40. And it gets better every year. I'm 46. I had to come to terms with my late start at happiness and how much time was lost, but then I started focusing on how much road there is ahead of me, to enjoy. The only thing I am really noticing is that physically I have to be more careful with my body. Like working out and such - I get more pains in my joints pretty easily. I think sometimes I forget my body isn't in its 20s anymore lol. But overall, this has been the best decade of my life! yeah, see, that's the problem I'm having with turning 40. I'm restarting my life now with my daughter gone, I've sold my home I lived at for over 10 years, sold or gave away almost everything I owned, up and moved to another state to be with Master, quit my job and now I'm finishing college since I was never able to before, going on a vacation overseas since I was never able to and just doing things I want to do for me now. But I think about how half my life has "wasted" away. I know I know...I raised a daughter, worked in a career that will help me to advance when I decide to go back to work, etc....but I still feel like I should be so much further ahead especially since I see my friends from high school who now have good jobs, have really done stuff with their lives. But it's funny....4 of them either got married or just got engaged and just had children or currently pregnant while I did that 20 years ago lol.
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