Ugh! I turned 40 over the weekend. And I feel old.

[tk2kewl]

My new anthem...

Driftwood (listen...)
by Mark McAdam

Driftwood finds its way to sand
So I'm sure that we will recognize out landmark soon
Wanderlust has lost its shine
It's left me cold and we're running out of time
As we wonder how much longer we can keep our cars in tune
And I only know that I'll new be the boy wonder
It's too late for that sort of thing now
Maybe I'll just cut my losses
In this city that is how we say surrender

Driftwood finds its way to sand
And they're wondering if they'll see a grandson soon
Friends like flies drawn to the light
In ellipses twice as vicious as the times seem cruel

Now if I get carried away I'll get plowed under
So I can't forget that I'll never be the boy wonder
I could just come to my senses then retire to some small town
And just surrender

Driftwood finds its way to sand
So I'm sure that we will recognize our landmark soon

[emulatorloo]

1. 40 is damn young. Besides, I keep hearing that "50 is the new 30"

Happy Birthday.

:toast:

[emulatorloo]

7. and that would make 40 the new 20. . .right? EOM

[tk2kewl]

10. Thanks.

:) It's time to make some changes though. I need to get a little inner peace; I never did turn out to be the boy wonder.

[Javaman]

17. only 50 year olds say that. ;) lol

The 40's ain't so bad, just requires more upkeep.

[TahitiNut]

45. At 40, a person hasn't even spent the majority of their life as an adult!!

Below 40, folks are still mostly children. :shrug:

[meegbear]

2. Happy birthday!! and don't remind me ...

turing 40 myself this Friday.

[tk2kewl]

41. Happy birthday in advance!

I hope you party as hard as we did this weekend. :beer:

Maybe my blue mood has more to do with the aftermath of overindulgence. :P

[Danieljay]

3. Happy Birthday! Its not that bad being 40...I turn 41

in a couple weeks. My question for you... "how old would you be if you didn't know how old you was"?

[Lancer]

34. "How old would you be…" is RIGHT!

It's a state of mind.

I just turned 45 and I don't think I ever looked better (not that I was ever what you'd call beautiful). The main thing is I don't feel 45.

I've outlived nearly all of my heroes… and when I look at pix of my grandmothers and aunts when they were my age, they look 65 because fashions and hairstyles were so dowdy a few generations ago.

Don't worry about the days behind you; look forward to the ones that are ahead of you. (It's taken me this long to believe that.)

[lse7581011]

4. I Love Being 43!

But I do remember crying the whole day I was 39 years and 364 days!

[kstewart33]

5. 40 old? Are you kidding?

I had my first daughter at 43 and my second birth at 45. After that, I felt younger than I had in a very long time. I'm now 53 and going strong.

40 is sooooo young. Enjoy it!

[tk2kewl]

19. my wife and i are trying to have our first now.

kinda freaks me out thinking that i'll be trying to get kids through college in my 60s :o

[Arugula Latte]

49. My relative is 57/his wife is 44

She is pregnant w/ their first child!

[Arugula Latte]

50. BTW, I'll be in the 40 Club in two months.

:scared:

Well, I'm trying to be positive about it because, heck, what is the alternative?

[tk2kewl]

51. best of luck to them...

i don't think i would do it at 57. :scared:

[mike_c]

6. dude, I'm staring 51 in the face....

Happy Birthday!

[BOSSHOG]

9. I'll be 52 in a few months

I like birthdays. I hope I have a whole bunch more.

[tk2kewl]

15. I hope you and I both have whole bunch more BOSSHOG.

:toast:

[Nordmadr]

32. Dude, I don't think I have ever heard a 51 year old say dude!

That rocks!

BTW, I'm 32 and feelin' old.

Olaf

[mike_c]

47. I live in norcal, what can I say...?

:hi:

[Nordmadr]

59. I spent a fair amount of time in San Diego and I was stationed

in Hawaii for two years when I was in the Navy. "Dude" is still part of my regular vocab.

Later Dude!

Stay young.

Olaf

[Maru Kitteh]

55. don't worry, you'll get over it

You'll wake up one day and realize that you're not supposed to be a child forever and that it's ok. Just because you're not a kid anymore does NOT make you old.

[sui generis]

8. you poor old fucker

There's nothing left to do for you except patch up from here on out.

:evilgrin:

Age is a state of mind until you lose it.

[tk2kewl]

13. Thanks...

Some days I feel like I could use that walker after a weekend of manual labor. I need to get my ass back in the gym. It wasn't that long ago that I was leading 5.9s and 5.10 in the Gunks (rock climbing).

[Alamom]

11. Happy Birthday. You'll feel a whole lot better about being 40,

when you turn 50. :)

It ain't so bad considering the alternative.

[applegrove]

12. You need to change your parameters. 40 is still on the young half of

90. You have not hit the half-way mark. And in all likelihood you will spend less time after 40 wasting your time being a doormat than you did before 40. So the years are actually better spent. Because you are all present & accounted for.

[Just Me]

14. Trust me, the next birthday is much better.

:hug: Happy Birthday!!! :bounce:

[lisa58]

16. 40 is great - you'll see...

Happy Birthday!!!

[tk2kewl]

27. I think I spent the entire year of being 39 feeling like I was gonna be 40

So at least I won't be doing that this year. :D

[Botany]

18. only one way to stop aging ......

..... so enjoy your 40s!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

20. Whatever your age, Every day is a gift.

Beware the 16 ton weight. In the meantime, Carpe Diem!

[tk2kewl]

23. I tend to forget that lately. I need to make more of each day for sure.

Thanks :hi:

[Tracyjo]

21. Ugh. I'm even older than you

Happy Birthday! I turned 40 on the 10th. I thought it was a lot easier than turning 30. I still tell people I'm 22. It's getting harder and harder to get away with it though.:P

[tk2kewl]

25. My brother gave me a card with shrub on the front that said...

There is no recession...

Oil is cheap...

We're winning the war on terror...

*

*and then on the inside*

*



And you still look like you're in your 20s

:P

[otohara]

22. Well At Least You Don't Have Perimenopausal

symptoms to look forward to, so snap out of it!

[tk2kewl]

46. there is always an upside

:P

[tomg]

24. Happy Birthday. Forty is

not old. I was forty before I realized I wasn't twenty anymore. If you want to feel better, listen Paul Simon's "Old." It sure as hell beats his "Old Friends" under the circumstances. Well, here are the lyrics.

"Old"

The first time I heard "peggy sue"
I was 12 years old
Russians up in rocket ships
And the war was cold
Now many wars have come and gone
Genocide still goes on
Buddy holly still goes on
But his catalog was sold

First time I smoked
Guess what - paranoid
First time I heard "satisfaction"
I was young and unemployed
Down the decades every year
Summer leaves and my birthday’s here
And all my friends stand up and cheer
And say man you’re old
Getting old
Old
Getting old

We celebrate the birth of jesus on christmas day
And buddah found nirvana along the lotus way
About 1,500 years ago the messenger mohammed spoke
And his wisdome like a river flowed
Through hills of gold
Wisdome is old
The koran is old
The bible’s
Greatest story ever told

Disagreements?
Work ’em out

The human race walked the earth for 2.7 million
And we estimate the universe at 13-14 billion
When all these numbers tumble into your imagination
Consider that the lord was there beefore creation
God is old
We’re not old
God is old
He made the mold

Take your cloths off
Adam and eve

[Lorien]

26. I turned 40 earlier this year. After the initial shock it wasn't that bad

I've been doing all sorts of things to improve my health, and after years of suffering from chronic illnesses I've finally found effective ways of combating them-so I actually feel younger now than I have in years (plus I don't look old because of good genes and Cellex-C ). :-)

Happy big 4-0! :hi: :party:

[tk2kewl]

35. Thanks...

health is definitely on my to-do list for 40.

quitting somking AGAIN tops the list

[Lorien]

48. That's a big one (and tough), I hope you can do it this time around

because I'm sure you'd feel considerably better (after a few weeks of feeling like crap). One of the big improvements I made this year was getting off processed foods (including diet soda) and eating all organic meals, which made a huge difference in my energy level and general health. Several people here had posted stories about the food industry that helped me to make the decision to switch to an organic diet-and damn, I can't believe how much better I felt in just a few weeks! The good thing is that prepackaged, minimally processed organic meals are much, much better now then they were ten years ago, and they tend to be considerably more tasty than the conventional stuff.

:hi:

[TomClash]

28. Turning 40 . . .

. . . it beats the alternative.

[noahmijo]

29. No way you're old man

I'm 24 most 40 year olds I know that have kept in shape look like they could be my classmates or something. Hell look at Tommy Lee!

[laruemtt]

30. 53 here and loving it -

it gets better, trust me. the best part is you stop caring so much what other people think of you. happy birthday!

[catabryna]

31. Enjoy this birthday...

and, revel in being 40. I turned 40 in April and I've loved every minute of it, in spite of the fact that I lost my husband last year. I'd take this over my 20s and 30s any day!

A :toast: for another great year to you!

[tk2kewl]

39. Thanks for the good wishes

and I'm sorry for the loss of your husband.
:hug:

[TallahasseeGrannie]

33. Forty is a challenge

no question about it. It is a time of imbalance...for women, especially, with hormones. And men have a lot of professional issues that crop up in those years. If you can get through 40, it gets a whole lot easier!

[tk2kewl]

37. my professional issues are part of my worries

not that the job is in jeopardy or anything, i just want to be doing something more constructive with less commuting. i'm bored as hell with work

[idiosyncratic]

36. Happy Birthday! I wish I could be 40 again, and healthy.

When I was 40, I was very ill. I'm much better now, and now that I've started Geocaching, I feel like a kid again, at the age of 58. :)

[tk2kewl]

38. Geocaching sounds like fun...

I just use my GPS for navigating the boat in the dark

[idiosyncratic]

58. If you already have a GPSr, then get out there and look for the

nearest Geocache. ;) Depending on where you live, I bet there are several within a mile of your house. In a 100-mile radius of my house, there are more than 4000.

It is very, very fun . . . and amazingly addictive. There is something for everyone -- whether you like long hikes in the woods, or are in a wheelchair.

[shanti]

40. just wait until you turn 50

then you'll feel REAL good! i turn 50 next month:-(

[tk2kewl]

42. Good luck with that!

Happy birthday in advance :toast:

[elehhhhna]

43. 46 next sunday. get over it!

[tk2kewl]

44. Happy birthday to you too.

:P

[leftofthedial]

52. whippersnapper!

on Thanksgiving, we'll set up a card table in the Lounge for you younguns

[tk2kewl]

53. I can't wait for my turkey.

My BIL cooks a fantastic Thanksgiving feast. :)

[mmonk]

54. Since I reached one year short of

50 over the weekend, I object to that remark.

[bikebloke]

56. Chalked up 50 last month

I'm still not feeling old. Over the weekend, at the opticians, I was asked if I had turned 40 yet. After that, I could be expecting bi-focals.

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

57. Oh hell, you still got five good years left

After that, large chunks of your body start to malfunction. So live it up now, kid! :party:

[In_The_Wind]

60. Happy Birthday !

[Shine]

61. Abundant birthday blessings to you, tk2kewl!

I wish you all the best, as you continue to journey through Life. May you be filled with Wisdom, Peace and Self-Love.

Personally, I LOVED turning 40. I decided to mark it in an unusual and symbolic way. For my 40th (last year), I did a tandem skydive, from 18,000 feet. We're talkin' 90 sec. of freefall, at 120mph. It was fantastic and unforgettable! It was something I'd always wanted to do, so I figured why not tie it in with my 40th? It became a wonderful metaphor of jumping into the next phase of my life, with Joy, Surrender and Love. I wrote an intention for myself and my life on a small piece of paper that I released as I was in freefall....sending it out into the ethers...It was VERY cool.


We might as well embrace getting older, and try to do it with as much grace and dignity as possible.

YOU, my friend, are in the PRIME of YOUR LIFE! Enjoy it.....
:hug:
Shine

[tk2kewl]

63. Thanks.

Sounds like you had quite a 40th! We had a few good days of partying for mine...

My wife threw me a great party, and she got together some musicians from one of her old bands and played a while before turning it over to a cover band.

We also got to see a funny off-broadway musical comedy called "Bush is Bad"

and we caught Mark McAdam and James McMurtry at the Mercury Lounge last night. I hope it's just the aftermath all of the partying that has me feeling old today.

[Shine]

65. Oh, cool!! James McMurtry is amazing.

Did he play that song "We Can't Make it Here Anymore"? Whew! That's a powerful one.

Good stuff. :thumbsup: Sounds like you had fun, too.

I'm in the middle of planning my hubby's big 50th bd party. He wants to invite about 200 people and have a kaoroke-singing themed party. He's even written a song that he's planning to sing to everybody. It's cool. We're renting a place, hiring a DJ, having it catered, the works. What the hell, it's what he wants and how many times do you turn 50...in THIS lifetime, anyway? :)

Hey, ya gotta mark those big decade ones, right? Congrats on yours, once again.

:hi:

[tk2kewl]

66. He certainly did play "We Can't Make it Here Anymore"

and a couple of other anti-war songs as well.

His new album really lays out all the ugliness of war and american jingoistic crap.

Mark McAdam had his own anti-bush tune too. I don't think it is recorded yet though.

[Shine]

67. Hmmm...haven't heard of Mark McAdam.

sounds like that club had a real "Mc"-thing goin' on that night!
:evilgrin:

[tk2kewl]

68. click the link in my OP to hear McAdam's "Driftwood"

cool stuff, with pedal slide guitar

[Shine]

70. Thanks, I hadn't done that yet. Nice song, indeed. Nice voice, too.

poignant....

Here's to the Journey of Surrender...
:toast:

[tk2kewl]

72. I so wanted to be The Boy Wonder, though

:(

[MissMillie]

62. Well, I'm a year older than you, and I haven't felt this young in years

Take good care of yourself. There is a big payoff for doing so, I promise.

[tk2kewl]

64. That needs to become my main goal for my 41st year on the planet

health.

quitting smoking, for the umteenth time and making it stick

[RedCloud]

69. Happy birthday and be thankful you are not from the Midwest.

Forty is pronounced "farty" there.

[tk2kewl]

73. LOL

:D now i'm thinking that maybe my wife is secretly a midwesterner and thats why she calls me that

[Left Is Write]

71. Happy Birthday! I'm not far behind you.

Were you in the class of 1984 too?

[tk2kewl]

74. 1983

and 92 for college... i took the extended plan :P