There's this idea that when you turn 40, you automatically go to adult contemporary heaven, but I want to try and challenge that.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It's a very tempting thing to try and relive your glory days when you get a little older and you worry that people have forgotten all about you.
I always thought that I might retire from any form of sexuality by the age of 40 and just become a dignified older person.
I find age such a foreign concept. I have to be reminded. I still have the extraordinary feeling of adventure, striking out into unknown fields.
When you're in your 40s, you become more conscious of life being of limited duration and that you need to create memories and go on little adventures from time to time.
I don't want to spend my life in my 40s feeling bad about being in my 40s, and then all of a sudden I'm 50, and I will have missed a whole decade!
I'm not afraid of turning 80 and I have lots of things to do. I don't have time for dying.
Don't allow old traditions to become permanent mental scripts for managing your life in the present. Reason: you will not be able to transform yourself to think differently and be better as you grow with age and maturity.
I am now seventy, rather glad, really, that I won't live to see the horrors to come in the 21st century.
I remember when the idea of living to be 40 seemed absurd.
I always did think that when I turned 40, I'd start coming into my own.