Posted on 01/16/2020 3:00:45 PM PST by Responsibility2nd
A radio guy summed it up:
At around 47 you’ve lived with a miserable job, miserable family; and now your knee hurts.
That’s a great perspective. It’s all about the way you decide to view your circumstances and the events in your life.
Nice means you would help me bury the bodies.
Well, the way I’ve heard it is that a ‘Friend’ is someone who would help you bury a body.
But a ‘Real Friend’ is someone who would help you move house.
(I’ve moved a couple of times and I know who my real friends are. But even they wouldn’t move the weights - I mean body-building,’weight-lifting’ weights. That was just too much to ask :-)
Anybody can step out of the reality that they’ve willfully chosen, and step into a better one, at any time.
Sometimes it’s not easy, but it’s always doable to learn to think differently and thereby change your life and circumstances.
Thanks for the good words. I should have a few months off. I’m hoping to hike the Appalachian trail or at least a section or two.
47 was awful...because of my ex.
Yup. Going thru the same “tunnel” for the next 20 years? That aint heaven but hell..
Yeah, I was miserable at 44 and 42. In retrospect, 41 and 43 were pretty lousy, too. 45 made it all worthwhile. And now they want to impeach him!
I am Silent Generation, too. 1931. In my late 40s I was teaching Chinese cooking, and with my DH’s blessing, was traveling all over the world. And then I got into politics with FReeper protests. I was never miserable and still am not. Am I lucky, or unusual? I do need FRee Republic. I would be miserable without it!
Thank you Jim Rob!
And while i’m here- how about some donations , my FReeper FRiends??
Next time I move all my giant over sized over priced tool boxes, I will give you a call.
And I’ll bring some beautiful, greatly-muscled young men :-)
Carter produced a lot of misery, that’s for sure!
FR gets a nice automatic monthly donation from us.
We donate to our Church, the Salvation Army regular and a
training program they have, and monthly mad money to our college grand kids, (we contributed to their college fund from the month they were born until they started College). Then, that became their monthly mad money and bonuses for A’s and B’s.
“I really began to live in my 40s. The older you get, the more you understand what really matters. You know yourself better; know what you really want instead of what culture has told you that you OUGHT to want; you’ve dropped a lot of foolishness, and have the detachment and concentration to ‘go for it’.
You just have to stop accepting other peoples’ ideas about aging and what’s possible to you at any particular point in life. Middle-aged people today are a lot younger than they used to be, and it’s not just because of medical advancement. It’s because we’ve learned to think differently, too.”
Same life calendar here. (2 guys and one woman) of us turned 40 the same time. We attended the same church and we were moping around at coffee hour after telling the world we were 40.
We must have looked miserable because several church members came up, hugged us and told us the same message, “This will be one your best decades ever. Go live it!”
The 3 of us, are now double that 40 age, said those comments were the best kicks in the butt we got as well as great advice.
I should have a few months off. I’m hoping to hike the Appalachian trail or at least a section or two.
Do it, you might not have another chance.
Say "hi" to Mark Sanford for me. ;)
You’re quite welcome...been there, done that :)
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