Someone - it may have been Abraham Lincoln - said that ‘Most people are about as happy as they decide to be.”
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.
That’s a great perspective. It’s all about the way you decide to view your circumstances and the events in your life.
“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.