Funny, I didn’t think twice about subscribing to it online but when I
opened my mailbox I got this funny feeling. I looked around to see who was looking. Then I immediately thought, oh man, the mailman is no longer going to think I’m his age, he’s going to know I’m 40. THE JIG IS UP! I immediately got paranoid and frantic at the same time. More 40 (pun intended) realities set in. No one ever thinks I’m anywhere near 40 and I actually like telling people I’m 39 because I look damn good (modest I’m not, but we have to hold on to whatever we can at this age ya' know) but I seriously felt a little blindsided by More yesterday. It was not on my own terms. Who now knew that I didn’t tell? I wonder if my neighbor saw the mailman putting the magazine in my box? I can always say it was delivered to the wrong house! Okay, okay… it's all silly I know, but whoever said everything that happens in the mind of a woman turning 40 is rational?
Does anyone who has turned 40 already have any funny and irrational stories for the rest of us about how you felt about turning 40?
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I had no problem with turning 40. I was pretty excited about it. Turning 35 was a different story though. I closed on my first house a few weeks before turning 35. Every time I would start to get freaked out about truning 35, I would think "OMG, I am buying a house!" Then when I would get scared about buying the house, I would remind myself that I was turning 35. Having two things to be freaked out about helped me to not get too overwrought about either one.
ReplyDeleteI don't really recommend that as a means of stress reduction though.
35 was a bigger deal to me too. I'm 43 now and sometimes I forget my age - kept saying I was 42 the other day. It's just a number after all.
ReplyDeleteI might have to check out that More mag myself. No shame in it, Tami!!
I was really dreading 40, but it turned out to be no big deal. I've been 46 for about a week now, and it's been kinda hard to get used to. Sounds like damn near 50.
ReplyDelete40 was hard for me. I felt like I was running out of time. I felt a sense of urgency and began realizing if I wanted my dreams I need to start living them.
ReplyDeleteAt 40 the pressure was off of my appearances. I was more freed up of the external crap that bound me in my 20s and 30s. My body was changing but so was my mind. I decluttered my life and got my priorities in order. No time to waste. I am loving this decade more than any other.
It was worth turning 40 for the free pedicure.
ReplyDeleteUmmm, 40. I ended up finding out I was pretty sick a couple of months after my birthday so my memory is clouded with thoughts of just being happy to be here.
ReplyDeleteOn the other hand 45 is coming up in a couple of months and I am thinking wow, wasn't I just 29???