39
No it is not "The Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, The Universe, and Everything"; that one was 42 (at least according to Douglas Adam's Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy"). 39 is just the number of
I still have the courage to write about it because it is a number lower than forty. So do not expect such a post next year!
Did my birthday bring up considerations and thoughts about my predicament? Yes it always does, every year. I have spent the last 8 years repeating to myself that even though I was above thirty, I had a wonderful husband, two lovely children a challenging job and a low interest mortgage, therefore I could consider my lifestyle totally appropriate to my age. Now that I am at the verge of forty I kind of feel that I cannot get away with this statement anymore, I need to have a new motto carrying me into the next phase of my life.
So maybe I should look outside of myself (for once) and investigate how other women get by. If I look around the one thing that jumps to the eye is that 40 seems to be the new 20. More and more women have children at this age, they most definitely wear sneakers and a backpack and they have absolutely no clue what they want to do when they grow up.
Is this really an age shift or is it women midlife crisis? Instead of buying a motorbike and having an affair with the secretary, women train to run the (half) marathon and go hiking in Guatemala.
Let's be positive and pick up the first of the two options: we are really observing an age shift!
OK, if I am allowed to work under this assumption than I can without shame declare the following: I loved three of the four Twilight books (and movies) I am never going to get rid of my Snoopy summer pajama and I love Megan Trainor!
So this is it, 40 is the new 20 and I hope that I can keep on believing this for the next decade!
- Happy
- Wretched
- Boring
- Useful
- Memorable
- Unmemorable
- Productive
- Exciting
I still have the courage to write about it because it is a number lower than forty. So do not expect such a post next year!
Did my birthday bring up considerations and thoughts about my predicament? Yes it always does, every year. I have spent the last 8 years repeating to myself that even though I was above thirty, I had a wonderful husband, two lovely children a challenging job and a low interest mortgage, therefore I could consider my lifestyle totally appropriate to my age. Now that I am at the verge of forty I kind of feel that I cannot get away with this statement anymore, I need to have a new motto carrying me into the next phase of my life.
So maybe I should look outside of myself (for once) and investigate how other women get by. If I look around the one thing that jumps to the eye is that 40 seems to be the new 20. More and more women have children at this age, they most definitely wear sneakers and a backpack and they have absolutely no clue what they want to do when they grow up.
Is this really an age shift or is it women midlife crisis? Instead of buying a motorbike and having an affair with the secretary, women train to run the (half) marathon and go hiking in Guatemala.
Let's be positive and pick up the first of the two options: we are really observing an age shift!
OK, if I am allowed to work under this assumption than I can without shame declare the following: I loved three of the four Twilight books (and movies) I am never going to get rid of my Snoopy summer pajama and I love Megan Trainor!
So this is it, 40 is the new 20 and I hope that I can keep on believing this for the next decade!
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