Posted on 03/15/2005 7:17:49 PM PST by ServesURight
40th birthday plunges Keanu into depression
15/03/2005 - 07:22:43
Hollywood hunk Keanu Reeves found turning 40 so tough last year, he plummeted into a dark period of depression.
The Matrix star says the months since his birthday last September have been a time of reflection, which quickly escalated into morbid brooding about how many years he has left before he dies.
The Canadian actor says: "It was a nightmare. It reminded me of adolescence and it felt like an internal transformation with physical aspect, like when your hormones run wild.
"But this time with a conscious shift, an awareness of your own mortality."
Yeah, I'm still trying to deal with that. I'm too cool to be 51!
They keep describing that poor woman who was injured in Atlanta as a '51 year old grandmother.' It makes her sound like she should be in a rocking chair. Maybe it's a baby boom thing - I don't mind being my age, it just freaks me out when I hear other people say it.
It's a peach of cake, Mr. Reeves! (quoting Rugrats)
I can understand the retrospection, but do that through your entire life, assess where you're going and where you want to be every once in awhile.
Age is just a number!
The meaning of the name Keanu is:
Cool Mountain Breeze
The origin is:
Hawaiian
Keanu was named by his father after Keanu's great-grand uncle, Henry Keanu Reeves. It is possible that he was also named after another great-grand uncle, Charles Keaweaheulu Reeves.
K.C. Reeves is the name he went by after arriving in Hollywood when his then agent tried to "de-ethnicize" his name which Keanu did not like at all.
Yeah, I'm 51, too. So how come I still think I'm 18 even though I look 25?
Jack Benney never had that problem.
He was always 39.
Hey I report, you decide.
Is 40 his age or his IQ?
A REAL Buddhist laughs at age ..He's a fraud and a wimp..The ego dies hard...
My grandmother is 94 and still says she feels 18 !
My grandmother is 94 and still says she feels 18 !
Keanu is 40???
And he's Canuckian???
You guys, 50 is nothing! It's all in your attitude.
I still feel like I'm 18(and then I look in the mirror...)
During some interview I happened to catch, he said hes not currently a buddhist.
i heard he practiced for a while in hopes it would ward off his crummy personal tradgedies.
Raised there.
His dad was Hawaiian/Chinese, his Mom English.
Same here. I have this wierd thing where I think everything was 5 or 10 years ago.I'll mention a concert I went to and think it was 7/8 years ago then a friend will remind me it was 27/28 years ago..Freaks me out sometimes..Still think Im 18 here too..As a musician it a little bit easier to do than most>
Never saw that, yeah very sad. But thx for sharing.
For a minute there I was sure this was from Scrappleface...
Almost.
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