What, 40? When?!!

Mar 08, 2011 15:46

As of March 25th I shall have been on this earth for forty years. From certain angles that's a significant chunk of time. Consider! To the average mayfly I'm practically eternal, having existed since the dimmest reaches of antiquity in their ephemeral societies (My official geological listing on their GPS is "That bastard what swats us"). On ( Read more... )

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momentrabbit March 8 2011, 16:55:28 UTC
I turn 36 in another 41 days, 11 hours, and 17 minutes.

No, I'm not obsessing about it...

And congratulations on beating (we hope!) the median!

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seritaph March 9 2011, 21:22:01 UTC
Like the man falling off a cliff was heard saying as he dropped by a few climbers further down. "So far so good. So far so good!"

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moiracoon March 8 2011, 21:32:00 UTC
I'd like to accurately reflect on whether hitting that milestone this past August changed things, but I'm sure that other things that occurred 'round that time had a bigger impact (losing a job, splitting from my longtime partner, moving, having my other longtime partner move in with me...). Every so often I think..."SHIT! I'm 40. How the hell did that happen?!?!" but mostly, I'm cool with it all.

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seritaph March 9 2011, 21:22:23 UTC
Staying busy can distract nicely, true enough!

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seritaph March 9 2011, 21:22:43 UTC
I kinda like being able to feel my extremities, however!

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seritaph March 9 2011, 21:23:03 UTC
A bit!

Some!

Sorta!

Perhaps!

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seritaph March 9 2011, 21:23:38 UTC
Mean in my case?

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*Sigh*

Failure. Lots of it. All mine, really. I don't blame the world for this. But still.

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