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The weird thing about being 40 is...


25 years ago you were 15, and that time over, you are 65, retirement age.

If being a teenager seems like yesterday, that means that 65 might not be that far away.

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Yeah, I fear that. 10 years ago doesn't seem that long ago. Strangely 13 years seems like a long time ago.

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Makes sense. When you were a 10 year old kid, a year seemed to take forever to go by because it was 1/10th of your life to that point. But at 40, a year is now 1/40th of your life, so to put in in scientific terms, your perception gets all kookified.

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Hmm never thought it like that. That really put things into prespectives.

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Remember when you were under 10 years old, you almost always included 1/2 to your age if needed. "How old are you?" "7 1/2." That 1/2 was very important!

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And when people get older, 1/2 is very important too. As in, they always say they are half their actual age.

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I just feel Old half the time. Till I put my foot down and let that big v8 roar!

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Uuuuhhh! What car do you have?? I LOVE vintage automobiles.

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1978 Chevy Big 10. A regular half ton truck with 1 ton frame, springs and brakes.
I just got it from the shop yesterday, we dropped it 3 inches.
It looks awful, the body is just rotten, my poor baby, but just a couple more mechanical bits and I'll be able to concentrate on the looks.

Do you have an old car? Brown Bess was damn near a basket case when I found her.

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Awww, that’s awesome. Post a pic sometime.

I’ve had many but none now. I actually had a dream two nights ago about my 67 sedan DeVille.

I like a cloudy ride and to steer with my pinky finger lol.

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About 7 years ago I had a '77 coupe! Or maybe it was a '78. Loved it! 425ci and TH400 with a 12 bolt hooked up to basically my living room ;)
Unfortunately repairing the rust in the rear quarterpanels was going to cost $3500.
And then the big block started knocking...
Gave it to a friend who eventually scrapped it.
Broke my heart 😥
But now I've got Bessie and it's all good lol!

You should look into getting another. People need money so now would be a good time.

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Sounds amazing! They’re so much fun, but she got 7 mpg in the city lol.

I’ll get another someday but cherry. When I have the dough I’ll start putting feelers out for one owner, low mileage, little old ladies mobiles. Of course, if I wanted a late 60’s model I’m not sure how that would work!

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I’m 38 and I have no idea what in the absolute fuck what you’re talking about.

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Even if you've never had that experience of looking back and feeling like time is passing too quickly, you're not aware that other people have that feeling at times?

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Time goes by. It seems to be. You could have been a better friend to me.

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Weirdest thing to me has been how quickly it happened, yes. The year 2000 doesn't seem that long ago.

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Wait till you hit your 70's.....

I'm so old, I was a waiter at the Last Supper ! ✝ 😩



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the Last Supper! Wow thats old!

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that is beautiful, probably exactly what happens! time just flies by most of the time

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this is silly, probably, but i am freaked out by some simple things when i stop to think about them.

for eg, the year i graduated high school was the 20th anniversary of the summer of love. there were a lot of articles around about hendrix, sgt pepper's, that sort of thing. & i remember thinking how that was all ancient history, deep in the past.

& now my bloody valentine, portishead, tricky, nirvana...all those are 25+ years old. so we're further away from the music i liked in my mopey 20s than i was from sgt peppers when i graduated.

i don't know why, but that kinda freaks me out.

or the fact that we are further away from the year i was born (1969) than we were from world war 1 at the time i was born.

that seems very weird.

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Well time is only an illusion.

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yeah , Lunchtime - doubly so

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i missed that. top of the day. its Sunday 2day

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I'm about the same ('71)
strange to think the start of the 90's (my 20s) were 30 years ago!
I have a couple of t-shirts from the 90s , and know a lot of people younger than those clothes , and indeed my car - which is a 90.

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the moment where i really started to understand how time was moving on was when we started hiring people in my office who were born the year i graduated from high school.

in a few years, we could be hiring the kids of people who were born the year i graduated.

it's not like anything's gained by dwelling on it, but every now and then it does make you stop & go 'huh-i'm not exempt from aging!'

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Congratulations you have now reached middle age! 45-65 or sometimes it is defined as 40-60.

Look at it this way, look at all you have learned since you were 25. You are smarter and wiser than your dumb 25 ass.

In China, a man's opinion doesn't mean shit until he reaches 60. They figure that people don't have enough life wisdom to make a decision on things.

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I'm 39 but yeah, I'm basically 'middle aged'.

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funnily enough, turning 40 didn't bother me at all.
& 50, which came last year, didn't faze me much either.

but 30 was devastating for me. the one time in my life i could say i truly got a bit depressed for a good length of time.

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