This is what happens when you are on the wrong side of 40. Young adults, who could be your children, are now working with you. I was playing their parents or mentor. I started to think: Oh, I am not part of that group any more.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I don't feel as if I belong to an age group.
You start realising as you get older that there are some kids who don't know who you are.
In our youths, many of us suspected that being tied down to a partner and family might constrain us. But after 40, even that landscape starts to shift. Many singletons turn inward and start longing for the things so many of us longed to be free of in our 20s.
I've become 40, my audience is partly the same age.
Apart from writing books, my 40s have been about pursuing personal growth. Whatever were the mistakes of my earlier life, I've been committed to a pause, a regroup. I don't want to make the same mistakes in the future.
I don't feel like a 40-year-old. I feel more like four 10-year-olds, each pulling in a different direction.
It's a funny feeling to work with people who you consider your colleagues and to realize that they actually are young enough to be your children.
I was a late child from my parents, so I grew up surrounded by people a lot older than me. I think even when I was 21, I felt like I was a 70-year-old man.
In your 40s, you shed those who bring you down and surround yourself with the most positive people you know.
I love being around kids. I couldn't figure out why all these 70-year-olds wanted to hang out with me when I was 27. Now I understand, and I'm trying to steal their energy from them like they stole from me at the time.