Tomorrow I turn 40.
We are all flat out getting ready for lots of family visiting this weekend. I can’t wait.
I actually couldn't care less about being 40 or getting older... my Nanna P used to say when talking about getting older "well it’s better than the alternative!" So true. Too many precious people are taken too early and they don't get the privilege of just ... being here. I feel lucky that I am around to do the good stuff (and the crappy stuff).
But I also get why people struggle with the zero numbers. There is a lot of fuss about them and you have no choice but to stop and think about the decisions you have made and the direction you are going in. There is also the undeniable truth that you have less time than you ever had before.
Riley and I went for a skateboard/walk on Sunday and I was thinking about how I felt right now in my life (whilst Bear tried to stop my heart showing me his boarding "skillz") and about being 40.
I came up with a really great list of people, reasons, experience and happenstance that make my life good (and if you are reading this you are one of them) and make me the person I am (and also striving to be). So bring on tomorrow :-)
I will finish with a quote that made me laugh like an idiot.
“Forty isn't old, if you're a tree” |
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