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.
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.
shareMakes 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.
shareHmm never thought it like that. That really put things into prespectives.
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I just feel Old half the time. Till I put my foot down and let that big v8 roar!
shareUuuuhhh! What car do you have?? I LOVE vintage automobiles.
share1978 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.
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.
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.
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!
I’m 38 and I have no idea what in the absolute fuck what you’re talking about.
shareWeirdest thing to me has been how quickly it happened, yes. The year 2000 doesn't seem that long ago.
sharethat is beautiful, probably exactly what happens! time just flies by most of the time
sharethis 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.
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.
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!'
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.