One of the shocks of a 50th birthday is realizing the fundamental fact that your youth is irrevocably over.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
My 50th birthday approaching felt like a big milestone to me. I've lived half a century. If I write about food and use my life as a fulcrum to move the story along, maybe I've lived long enough to fashion a narrative that has a happy ending.
For the youth, the indignation of most things will just surge as each birthday passes.
A lot happens at 50, the best thing being that you just don't care anymore. At 40, you still care. At 30, you care way too much - and your twenties are quite frankly a nightmare. Bring on 60, I say: just imagine the joy of having grandchildren.
I'm too young at 50. I'm not grown up yet. There's part of everybody like that.
Turning 60 had an impact on my heart and soul, I must say, because you're dealing with time: past, present, and future. You suddenly realize you've come down the road quite a ways.
The minute you're born, you're getting older.
Wonderful things happen when you turn 50: you change perspective. You ask, 'Who am I? What do I want to do with my life? What have I not done that I want to do?'
By the age of fifty, you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth.
If you're 50, you're never going to be 50 ever again, so enjoy being 50. If you sit through the year wishing you were younger, before you know it, it's going to be over, and you're going to be 51.
My generation is having its midlife crisis in its 20s.