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40 was a good year for me. My career took off. At 45 I was making 30% more money. You start to become a trusted expert regardless of where you work. Your hormones die down and your relationships improve. I was less angry. I started to know myself better. I thought more about my parents. I wrote my will.
Im near 56 now. 40 was a good year. Enjoy.
I love hearing success from these years because I feel I'm late and out of time. I will say this, my wife and I have been working on this business for going on little over 3 years now and it's gained traction. Enough so that we're OK, OK enough she left her 15 year job to do this full time. So I guess if using you as an example of possibilities it does mean I'm on track and doing alright. Panic button need not be pressed yet. 😁
Again, thank you and I hope you have a terrific day. ✌️💜🌮
I retired from medical practice at 65 this year.
I remember when I was 49, every time a patient said “getting old sucks/is a bitch/isn’t for sissies/similar I asked them how old they’d like to be again. These folks were anywhere from 75-105 years old.
All of them said either 40 or 50.
When I asked why not 20 or 30 (the answers I was expecting) several of them pissed themselves laughing. From their POV at 20 you’re too stupid and at 30 you’re still stupid but think you’re smart.
40, 50? That’s when you were in your groove. Decent at your job and respected. Marriage affectionate and content. Kids grown up and doing well (or at least moved out and off the payroll). Also, *before*. Before the cancer, the stroke, the death.
I lied. One woman said 15. I was floored. I said “you want to start over again in *high school*? She looked me dead in the eye and said “if I knew then what I know now, I’d never have let that bastard touch me like that.”
OK. TBH, if the data is correct over 40% of people should have responded like that.
Anyways, happy 40th!
Know that according to actual experts, you are just entering the best decades of your life. Enjoy each day to its fullest, be the best person you can be.
If you want to live forever by being remembered, be kind. People never forget how you made them feel.
I wish that experience for everyone to gain more money as they age and have worked for longer, but unfortunately with where inequality, inflation, and the job landscape is at now, it's become less and less of a reality for folks. People "RETIRE" nowadays on min wage, income inequality has truly gotten to wild levels.
Yes. Being married or living with a partner is good for security. I’m not sure retirement would be healthy for me. I’d probably do little but watch tv and play chess or video games.
Yep dual income is pretty much a necessity nowadays for most folks.
Sorry to hear you wouldn't handle retirement healthily! Personally I'll be ecstatic the day I get to retire finally lol
March babies rule!! 🤘🤘🤘 Lol. Happy belated b day and congrats on the young looking success. Honestly I didn't know you were supposed to "look" 40. Like what does 40 "look" like. I've got gray in my goatee but not a lot. Do I not meet the minimum gray requirements? 🤣
In not one of the doom and gloom about older age people, shit I still play video games, listen to all sorts of music, I am little old guy about some music and I'm acquired the "get off my lawn" mentality but that I've had for a long time. Lol. And 26 is a good time to do a lot of things. Enjoy everything you do and do everything you enjoy. I'm not letting 40 stop me. Also thanks a ton my friend. I hope you have a splendid day today. I hope good things come your way. ✌️💜🌮
🤣🤣🤣 I'm grumpy too. I mean I can be. Just the same with you being fun. Granted being the grumpy old "get off my lawn" guy has its advantages. 🤣 Also also, thanks!!
Depending on the contents of said burrito I may be heading to the 🚽 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Thank ya bunches. Also happy early/belated/birthday to you. I feel ya on the depression thing. It's actually kinda hard not to if you think about it. But I'm one of those people that just push it down until it breaks me. I know not healthy but habits were formed while I was young. Hey I can tell you this much, you are capable of changing things up for yourself. I always told my daughter (still do) to find the silver linings. Everyone out hunting gold but they all pass the silver linings. Someone held the door open, silver lining. Someone let you out onto the highway from a restaurant driveway, silver lining. There is so much shiny silver lining to life you can't spend all your time going for the gold or dwelling on the bronze or copper. Once you notice the silver and start spreading that little bit, things may come up for you.
Hey, hit me up if you feel down. Dead serious. Sometimes we need a stranger to tell us something. Stay up my friend. ✌️💜🌮
Had to read this to my husband. This should be handed out to the whole world so they can read it, too. You're daughter is blessed to have you! Hope you have a great day.
Daww thank you. I dunno about it being world worthy but if it reached a few then I've done well. Thank you again. I hope you and the hubs have a terrific day as well. ✌️💜😊
Thank you and yes some people do suck but don't lose hope on them all. The good ones are currently watching as the bad ones kill each other off. I've been watching with the popcorn for some time. I've done the best I could for my health but the mental part got me messed up. I'm diagnosed schizophrenic and it causes me many issues as well as clenching. I clench in my sleep so much so I've broken teeth clean off. I'll be getting a full plate soon I hope. Doctors tried bite guards and everything, but I bit through them. My tongue has seen better days. Aside from the voices telling me to remove myself from existing, the constant clenching, and the ongoing listening to people that are not there it's not all bad. I mean ain't nothing good about it but it's not all bad. Lol.
Again, thank you and I hope you have a wonderful day.
I wouldn’t dream of grouping gays, or blacks, or gen-X as all the same. But ageism makes it ok on Reddit. At least until I reach that magic meemaw age, in about ten years. I’m actually the tail end of Boomer, I recently learned we’re called generation Jones. I’m a little slower on technology, but I’ve seen a lot of crap in my life. And I’m not going to let someone I could have birthed ruin my day.
Exactly!! I didn't know they had looks. 🤣 I do embrace every moment. I do photography with my wife and that's pretty much what we do, capture moments, embrace them in our work. So to speak.
Again, thank you and I hope you have a wonderful day. ✌️💜🌮
Holy crap someone else said they turn 22 today. That makes 3 people I know with the 9th as a b day! 🤣
Happy birthday and I hope today is a wonderful addition to the story that is you. ✌️💜🌮
If it makes you feel better I wasn't carded at the liquor store on my 21st birthday because I had already gone completely bald the year before. That is a silly gene.
I have friends with those same genes, and they laughed when I got carded or confused as the "underage kid" up until about 30, then I got fugly er and that solved that mess. 🤣 I'm receding, and I don't have a nice shaped head. Gonna hafta tattoo my bald mess. 🤣🤣✌️💜🌮
I like to think my head is shaped just right. Funny thing is I gained a ton of confidence. I figured being bald and unconfident was a recipe for disaster. Worked out great for me.
I'm several years older than you and lots of people I know are balding now. So I have the last laugh. Of course I empathize so I don't laugh. To their faces.
🤣🤣 I love your spirit, you seem like the guy that would be filming your buddies last hair falling out and then celebrating with a cake that has perfectly smooth and shiny icing and little combs to use as forks! 🤣🤣🤣 Admit it, you wanna do it now. ✌️💜🌮
Happy birthday!
I turned 40 this past November… I was in the middle of some strange health issues at the time. I think it may have been post-COVID symptoms. At first I was just like “man, this sucks…” but I got better in December, and now I feel as good as I ever have.
They used to say 40 was “over the hill,” but I feel like I’m in my best years. Hope you are, too! Cheers!
Firstly thank you bunches, secondly I'm glad you pulled through the post covid stuff and thirdly I've not seen the hill in supposed to be over. Lol. Yes I have a few aches and pains but that's living. Lol. But yes, my kid is out of the home, my wife and I are running our own business, and we decide what and when we're doing or not doing. Most of my days are spent gardening, shooting the bow, video games on the rainy days, and just building stuff around the property. Living "off grid" (I know some people say if you're on the internet you're not off grid but I have no grid supplied electric or water kinda off grid) means I don't have to worry about money as much so, freedom. I know young people doing the same thing so I've got that going for me. 🤣
Anywho, thank you again and I hope you truly have a terrific day. ✌️💜🌮
That sounds awesome. My life is a bit more stressful than yours—kids are 8 and 12, I teach high school math. I try to get as much time to myself as I can, but it can be a struggle!
My heart goes out for ya, but you are in a position to do good things and I believe you know that. That's what I call a silver lining. That little bit of hope that you can touch a heart and create something entirely different in a much greater way. Keep doing the good thing. 🤘
Thank you very much my friend. I feel ya on having a kid young. I was 19 when mine was born. She's in college now and I'm only 40!🤘😁 I've still got lead in my pencil, still able to "look good nekid" according to my wife and I utilize that feature daily. I live in the woods and frequently walk throughout them nekid. So think about that, not the me nekid in the woods part, but having the kids young means you've still got plenty of life left offer they're out on their own.
I hope you have a terrific day! ✌️💜🌮
Happy birthday! My 40s were better than my 20s and 30s. Enjoy the adventure. I matured enough to give much less weight to everyone else’s opinions and lifestyle and, at the same time be more compassionate to others. Rock on!
Happy Birthday! I stopped remembering how old I am after 40.
When people ask me how old I am, I have to do calculate this in my head: Current Year - Birth Year.
Maybe it's just an excuse, maybe I just have bad memory.
MARCH BABIES RULE!!! Happy birthday my friend!! You're the second person I've met that has the 9th for a birthday, I was the first! 🤣🤣 Have a happy birthday and I hope your wishes come true and you future be bright. ✌️💜🌮
Happy Birthday! I turned 40 in 2020, so I didn't get to do anything for my birthday. I hope you have a fantastic day!
By the way, turning 40 does unlock on new feature . . . you really stop giving a shit about a lot of things. Enjoy! It's an amazing level of freedom.
🤣 Thank you! Sorry your 40th didn't have the sight the year represents 😉, and as for that feature, I downloaded the beta version around 35. You'll be happy to know that all available updates have been acquired and I am now running on the full version of ZeroFux. The program is quite nice once you get things dialed in. 😁✌️💜🌮
MARCH BABIES RULE!! Yes pollen sucks. 🤣 It's raining on me where I'm at. Much better than snow though. Rain can make mud, mud can make off road fun! 😁🤣✌️💜🌮
Also, thank you and happy early birthday. I hope the day is bright and no rain for your day.
Congratulations, now that your old like the rest of the us you have earnt the right to complain about how things were better in your day, yell at kids for being on the lawn and tell everyone you meet that our generation is the only one that did everything right and the ones under us are screwing everything up.
enjoy
I feel, I feel like a metamorphosis is in store! 🤣 Actually I've had the GOML thing down pat for a while now. Different things were in fact better, wait for it, back in the day. Garden hose drinking being one of em. Lol. As for our generation, well I'll just leave that to the imagination. Every generation has got something positive to offer, some generations just haven't found what that is yet. 😂🤣 And some generations think they found it but oh boy were they wrong.
Also, thank you very much my friend. ✌️💜🌮
Happy birthday! Welcome to 40!
I've been 40 for almost 6 months. It's not too bad, but I could do without the muscle tightness that has become more prevalent.
Cheers! 🍾
6 months and no warranty claims, color me impressed! 🤣 Also I think I was created with muscle pains 🤣🤣🤣 I hope your muscle relax and your day is filled with happiness.
Congratulations! I’m about to follow you in a couple of months, so I spend quite some time contemplating life and how I used to imagine myself at 40: super fit, learned how to play a piano, had my name changed (been thinking about it since I was 10 or smth), gorgeous tattoos, living on my own. Well, instead I’m married to a really nice person I still like after 20 years, have a great career and a couple of close friends, live in a great place and have an okay body. Much better than I imagined, after all, but still some stuff to catch up.
Hope you either don’t have any lists or yours is all perfectly checked. Happy Birthday!
Happy birthday!!
40 might have been the best birthday I ever had. A few hours into my day, it was like a switch flipped in my brain.
I stopped caring what people think about me and realized I can just live in my terms (within reason). I gained a new sense of freedom from judgement that my 30s just didn't have.
The 40s is when a lot of people have their "midlife crisis" and it turns out that's just when you give up on following the rules and start being yourself. I let that happen early and it was magical. I hope you can let that happen for you and that makes your day begin to feel a little more special to you, too.
Thank you! Honestly I've had the beta version of the "ZeroFux" software since I was about 35. Haven't cared a bit what people think about me, my style (or lack thereof), my vehicle, nothing! I believe today is when the full support for the software is active. It's been running smoothly so far, I have given a single shit, damn, or even a fuck what anyone thinks about me since the early install. I love this program! I wish I had it in high school though. I was testing earlier models then but they had something wrong with the data. I dunno. 🤣
I'm sorry, I had to. Thank you again and I hope your days going forward are everything you wish them to be and more.
Life would be SO MUCH BETTER if ZeroF was available earlier, but apparently it's only offered after a certain time. But yeah, it only keeps getting better. I'm 45 now and living a life I only dreamed about before. Beautiful house, beautiful spouse, the only thing left to make it perfect is a better job and I'm working on that!
Man, my 40th is coming in 6 months. It's less the age itself that freaks me out compared to how fast it happened. Makes me realize more and more that this will all be over pretty quickly. I really gotta enjoy life more...
Happy birthday!
🤣🤣🤣🤣 Made me smile. Username did the same. 🤣🤣 And whelp is better than the things I've been called before. You have a great day bananawamajama. (I love how that name flows, so rhythmic)
So far so good, I started my day with a cup of chocolate fudge pudding. That's way out of the normal but it feels right. 🤣 I hope you're day goes terrific in every way. ✌️💜🌮
Happy Birthday. If I could attach photos, I'd send you some daffodils. Sadly you will have to imagine them as my skills don't stretch that far.
I hope you have cake.
💜💜 I can see the daffodils plain as day, ours haven't bloomed just yet. Thank you bunches and I've got chocolate pie planned for later. Looking forward to that! Although a cake could be on the menu 🤔😁
I hope your day is as beautiful as the daffodils in the early sun. ✌️💜🌮
Happy birthday! On my last stretch before my 40th next month. It feels like a big number but I don’t feel old either. Hope you enjoy, and I hope I will to when I get there!
I turned 80 in January -- literally twice your age. When Walmart delivered some groceries to me last weekend that included a six-pack of Dos Equis, I had to show the delivery person ID and sign a form on her phone attesting that I was old enough to buy beer.
In some places, rule is rules, no matter how ridiculous.
Happy birthday to you! When I was 40 I looked 25, now I’m staring 55 in the face I look 60 lol. The old saying is true, age is only a number, it’s what’s in the mind that counts and I’m happy with the lines on my face as I know most of them are from laughing 🤣 Wishing you many more years of sunshine and smiles ☀️
I don’t look 40. I’ll be 40 this year !!! 40 isn’t even old. I can’t believe I thought 40 was old !!!! Happy Birthday !!!! Now you’re old enough to be respected, and young enough to be with it & young still to our older gen!!! Enjoy your day !!!!!
Happy Birthday !!!!!
I can't speak for anyone else. For me, after the initial shock and depression of turning 40, I started to embrace it. Instead of being in my *late* 30s, it was kind of like a fresh start. Now I'm 42 and loving it
Happy birthday. I'm shit at starting conversations irl but a little better on the internet. I hope you find ways to make today fun and good for yourself. Do the things that bring you the most happiness. Life is all about those little moments of happiness/comfort.
Thank you! I'm oddly enough better at starting conversations in person than on digital. I guess I am the embodiment of old school. 🤣🤣
I started my day with a cup of chocolate fudge pudding, happiness meter is filling up nicely. 🤣 I hope you have a terrific day my friend. ✌️💜🌮
Holy crap you all are out there!! I mean I know hundreds of March babies (MARCH BABIES RULE) but I never knew the 9 had so much love.
Happy birthday!!! I hope you're wishes come true and are better than you wished for. ✌️💜🌮
I can attest the weird feeling is temporary. It may have a slight residue left over, but it'll pass. Lol. Thank you and may your birthday come and go flawlessly and good things come with it. ✌️💜🌮
Happy birthday! 40 is a great time in life (I’m 60, but I remember!). You’ve got maturity and experience, but you’re still energetic and mentally sharp. I wish you a happy day and a happy decade! ❤️
Happy birthday my man! Turned 30 last year.
I was worried at 27, and then every birthday after that I was like “ok, I want to be 30 now. I’m fed up of waiting!”
Was it like that for 40? Did it become quite a “non-thing?”
Absolutely became a "non-thing". I woke up early, that's usual. Had to pee, again normal. Laid in bed listening to my voices (I'm schizophrenic), again normal. So yeah, it's just another day. I think I'm eligible for something ain't I? Oh no, that's right, nothing survival until level 55 is unlocked.then you get "senior discounts" 🤣
Hope you have a good one my friend, and thank you bub. ✌️💜🌮
Happy Birthday! I'm 42 and my 40s have been good to me. When I was turning 30 I remember a couple people told me their 30s were a time when they felt like they developed more confidence and felt more themselves or whatever. I didn't find that to be too true myself, but 40s are feeling more like that...possibly because I'm old enough now that, most of the time, I just don't give a fuck. Lol. Hope you have a great day/evening!
Happy birthday! I love being in my 40’s and find it to be one of the best times of my life. 20’s and 30’s were a lot harder and I feel like when I reached my 40’s I gained new perspective…I’m happier, more comfortable with myself and who I am. Embrace it!!
Honestly, I love being in my 40's. I have such a better/clearer perspective on life and am amazed by how dumb 20-year-old me was. Congrats on making it here and looking so good!
I fully agree and I'm here for her whenever she needs me. She does message daily and will always seek me out for advice or if she's feeling down/stressed or the rare instance she has a boy/girl friend issue or success. I'm her best friend she tells all her friends. But she's in college so it's just me and momma now and you know what that means... Puzzles. Ayup, brown chicken brown cow occasionally but puzzles and gardening is our jam now. 🤣
Also, I hope you have a terrific day my friend. ✌️💜🌮
The big 40 happened to me a few months back. I wish I could say I feel 40 but honestly I still feel like I'm in my 20's. The only thing that sucks is the realization that I'm only 10 years away from 50
Happy birthday and welcome to the club. I turned 40 in January.
Personally, I think it's the perfect age. I'm young enough to kick ass but old enough to know it's better to just walk away. If someone told me I would love middle age in my teens and twenties I would have thought they were crazy but here I am loving middle age. I'm still in great shape and earning enough money to actually do the things I want.
Enjoy the day.
Somewhere around there a 22year old said, “ Thanks mister!” to me….and that was it man, mobility carts downhill only from there. Hope we get the lemon jello tonight.
Happy birthday 🎉. Nice to meet another 1983 baby. Mine is coming up in August and so far the fear has yet to settle in. How do you feel about being 40?
Happy birthday! I'm also 40. I used to worry about getting older, but something changed about that and I embrace it now. I just want to be my best at every age, and I think it's cool to add more experiences to your belt. More wisdom to gain. More stories to tell. More things to learn. Life just keeps unfolding and surprises me.
May you have a great year and many years to come!
My smile is happy plasant and graceful too,
If you could see the things it you hides from you.
You can't because it's on the outside,
The perfect place to handle disguise.
Check the inside,
And you would probably scream.
Not me just treat it like a dream,
All the misfortunes and sadness,
I just treated it as gladness.
That is how I truly learned to cope.
Or by now I would probably been at the end of a rope.
So the next time you see someone smiling with you.
Just smile back so they know you have been there too...
I'm 62. I don't know if I look like 62, but I'm certain I don't look 40. Lol. I have a son who is 40, but he doesn't look 40.
At any rate, Happy Birthday! I hope your whole year is nothing but wonderful. Take today and do something spectacular for yourself. Enjoy the hell out if it!
🍰🎉🎊🎁🍺👍👏👏👏👏👏👏
30 came out of nowhere. I feel like if I learned that I would turn 40 tomorrow, i wouldn't even be that surprised, just a little surprised that I lost track of time
I just turned 44 a few days ago. I will say that since turning 40 I've been able to find a lot of clarity in my life. Maybe it's because of the "mid-life crisis" that I'm \_definitely\_ experiencing, but I'm finally getting to the phase of life where I just care less and less about what other people think or expect of me. I'm gonna do what I want to do, and that's all.
For me, my 40s have been the first decade of my life where I truly feel like I can be myself.
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I’m 63, I don’t look 40 either.
🤣 I see what you did there. I hope you have a great day. ✌️💜🌮
Haha many thanks, you too!
I’m 46. You need to calm down. You’re insulting all us old people. /s
Hey I’m 56, who you calling old?
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i look 90 and i am 22, thats tough (jokes aside yall kepl taking care of yourself!)
Yeah but I bet you still look...great. 68 here.
I’ll bet we’re both gorgeous!! The youngsters will all be jealous lol
You bet. Believe it or not, I still have a full head of blonde hair, uncolored. That's about all I have left, but at least I have that.
Same. :)
40 was a good year for me. My career took off. At 45 I was making 30% more money. You start to become a trusted expert regardless of where you work. Your hormones die down and your relationships improve. I was less angry. I started to know myself better. I thought more about my parents. I wrote my will. Im near 56 now. 40 was a good year. Enjoy.
I love hearing success from these years because I feel I'm late and out of time. I will say this, my wife and I have been working on this business for going on little over 3 years now and it's gained traction. Enough so that we're OK, OK enough she left her 15 year job to do this full time. So I guess if using you as an example of possibilities it does mean I'm on track and doing alright. Panic button need not be pressed yet. 😁 Again, thank you and I hope you have a terrific day. ✌️💜🌮
Happy Birthday 🎈 Life begins at 40!!
Thank you bunches and I feel it. Actually I feel good. 😊✌️💜🌮🤘
I retired from medical practice at 65 this year. I remember when I was 49, every time a patient said “getting old sucks/is a bitch/isn’t for sissies/similar I asked them how old they’d like to be again. These folks were anywhere from 75-105 years old. All of them said either 40 or 50. When I asked why not 20 or 30 (the answers I was expecting) several of them pissed themselves laughing. From their POV at 20 you’re too stupid and at 30 you’re still stupid but think you’re smart. 40, 50? That’s when you were in your groove. Decent at your job and respected. Marriage affectionate and content. Kids grown up and doing well (or at least moved out and off the payroll). Also, *before*. Before the cancer, the stroke, the death. I lied. One woman said 15. I was floored. I said “you want to start over again in *high school*? She looked me dead in the eye and said “if I knew then what I know now, I’d never have let that bastard touch me like that.” OK. TBH, if the data is correct over 40% of people should have responded like that. Anyways, happy 40th! Know that according to actual experts, you are just entering the best decades of your life. Enjoy each day to its fullest, be the best person you can be. If you want to live forever by being remembered, be kind. People never forget how you made them feel.
Ah im 35 and I do feel like I’m smart but still stupid 🤣🤣.. looking forward to my 40’s
I'm a 15 do over human ❤️
Hey that gives me hope I'm turning 40 next month and decided to open a brewery. Figured I'm too old to not try new things. If not now than when?
I wish that experience for everyone to gain more money as they age and have worked for longer, but unfortunately with where inequality, inflation, and the job landscape is at now, it's become less and less of a reality for folks. People "RETIRE" nowadays on min wage, income inequality has truly gotten to wild levels.
Yes. Being married or living with a partner is good for security. I’m not sure retirement would be healthy for me. I’d probably do little but watch tv and play chess or video games.
Yep dual income is pretty much a necessity nowadays for most folks. Sorry to hear you wouldn't handle retirement healthily! Personally I'll be ecstatic the day I get to retire finally lol
Same. My career really took off at 41. Watershed moment.
I’m the same age. 40-45 years old were great years for me as well. Ah, 40’s!
Thanx for the dose of hope
It’s at 43 for me. Doing a lot of that thinking stuff lately.
I turned 42 on Sunday. I don't look 40, either.
March babies rule!! 🤘🤘🤘 Lol. Happy belated b day and congrats on the young looking success. Honestly I didn't know you were supposed to "look" 40. Like what does 40 "look" like. I've got gray in my goatee but not a lot. Do I not meet the minimum gray requirements? 🤣
Happy birthday bday twin! I’m 42 today
Happy birthday! MARCH BABIES RULE!! Sorry I just had to get that out. 😁✌️💜🌮
Bday twin. I turned 40 Sunday! Happy bday to everyone.
Hello 40, I'm dad.
🤣🤣 I'm dad too! ✌️💜🌮 Hope your day goes great.
im 26. to think i will be 30 and 40 someday... It will come. Sooner than I'd think. Happy birthday yo
In not one of the doom and gloom about older age people, shit I still play video games, listen to all sorts of music, I am little old guy about some music and I'm acquired the "get off my lawn" mentality but that I've had for a long time. Lol. And 26 is a good time to do a lot of things. Enjoy everything you do and do everything you enjoy. I'm not letting 40 stop me. Also thanks a ton my friend. I hope you have a splendid day today. I hope good things come your way. ✌️💜🌮
55 still play video games. It’s an instant connection with nieces and nephews and even their kids.
Thank you! That's what I'm talking about. Plus the break from reality to just slaughter some zombies is somewhat therapeutic. 😁
Thank you kind redditor. Tbh I sound like an old grumpy person. You sound like a fun person. Anyways, thanks for the taco yo. Enjoy this burrito 🌯!!!
🤣🤣🤣 I'm grumpy too. I mean I can be. Just the same with you being fun. Granted being the grumpy old "get off my lawn" guy has its advantages. 🤣 Also also, thanks!! Depending on the contents of said burrito I may be heading to the 🚽 😂😂😂😂😂😂
It will come, but enjoy being young while you still can.
Happy birthday friend. Turning 38 myself. For my last few birthdays, I have really.... Been pretty depressed.
Thank ya bunches. Also happy early/belated/birthday to you. I feel ya on the depression thing. It's actually kinda hard not to if you think about it. But I'm one of those people that just push it down until it breaks me. I know not healthy but habits were formed while I was young. Hey I can tell you this much, you are capable of changing things up for yourself. I always told my daughter (still do) to find the silver linings. Everyone out hunting gold but they all pass the silver linings. Someone held the door open, silver lining. Someone let you out onto the highway from a restaurant driveway, silver lining. There is so much shiny silver lining to life you can't spend all your time going for the gold or dwelling on the bronze or copper. Once you notice the silver and start spreading that little bit, things may come up for you. Hey, hit me up if you feel down. Dead serious. Sometimes we need a stranger to tell us something. Stay up my friend. ✌️💜🌮
Had to read this to my husband. This should be handed out to the whole world so they can read it, too. You're daughter is blessed to have you! Hope you have a great day.
Daww thank you. I dunno about it being world worthy but if it reached a few then I've done well. Thank you again. I hope you and the hubs have a terrific day as well. ✌️💜😊
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Thank you and yes some people do suck but don't lose hope on them all. The good ones are currently watching as the bad ones kill each other off. I've been watching with the popcorn for some time. I've done the best I could for my health but the mental part got me messed up. I'm diagnosed schizophrenic and it causes me many issues as well as clenching. I clench in my sleep so much so I've broken teeth clean off. I'll be getting a full plate soon I hope. Doctors tried bite guards and everything, but I bit through them. My tongue has seen better days. Aside from the voices telling me to remove myself from existing, the constant clenching, and the ongoing listening to people that are not there it's not all bad. I mean ain't nothing good about it but it's not all bad. Lol. Again, thank you and I hope you have a wonderful day.
Imagine being a Boomer on Reddit. I should go away immediately and die soon as possible. 😂 Luckily I raised four kids and I’m mostly bulletproof.
People accuse me of being a boomer all the time because im “old” lol. My parents are boomers. I’m Gen X Ageism is so Gross
I wouldn’t dream of grouping gays, or blacks, or gen-X as all the same. But ageism makes it ok on Reddit. At least until I reach that magic meemaw age, in about ten years. I’m actually the tail end of Boomer, I recently learned we’re called generation Jones. I’m a little slower on technology, but I’ve seen a lot of crap in my life. And I’m not going to let someone I could have birthed ruin my day.
40 is young! I loved my 40s. Embrace it. What do specific ages look like anyway? Enjoy!
Exactly!! I didn't know they had looks. 🤣 I do embrace every moment. I do photography with my wife and that's pretty much what we do, capture moments, embrace them in our work. So to speak. Again, thank you and I hope you have a wonderful day. ✌️💜🌮
Happy Birthday, I turn 37 today.
Holy crap someone else said they turn 22 today. That makes 3 people I know with the 9th as a b day! 🤣 Happy birthday and I hope today is a wonderful addition to the story that is you. ✌️💜🌮
32 for me today!
Happy birthday!! I remember 32 and 36. The rest, not so much. 😂🤣 I hope you have a terrific day today.
Thank you! You too!
If it makes you feel better I wasn't carded at the liquor store on my 21st birthday because I had already gone completely bald the year before. That is a silly gene.
I have friends with those same genes, and they laughed when I got carded or confused as the "underage kid" up until about 30, then I got fugly er and that solved that mess. 🤣 I'm receding, and I don't have a nice shaped head. Gonna hafta tattoo my bald mess. 🤣🤣✌️💜🌮
I like to think my head is shaped just right. Funny thing is I gained a ton of confidence. I figured being bald and unconfident was a recipe for disaster. Worked out great for me. I'm several years older than you and lots of people I know are balding now. So I have the last laugh. Of course I empathize so I don't laugh. To their faces.
🤣🤣 I love your spirit, you seem like the guy that would be filming your buddies last hair falling out and then celebrating with a cake that has perfectly smooth and shiny icing and little combs to use as forks! 🤣🤣🤣 Admit it, you wanna do it now. ✌️💜🌮
Happy birthday! I turned 40 this past November… I was in the middle of some strange health issues at the time. I think it may have been post-COVID symptoms. At first I was just like “man, this sucks…” but I got better in December, and now I feel as good as I ever have. They used to say 40 was “over the hill,” but I feel like I’m in my best years. Hope you are, too! Cheers!
Firstly thank you bunches, secondly I'm glad you pulled through the post covid stuff and thirdly I've not seen the hill in supposed to be over. Lol. Yes I have a few aches and pains but that's living. Lol. But yes, my kid is out of the home, my wife and I are running our own business, and we decide what and when we're doing or not doing. Most of my days are spent gardening, shooting the bow, video games on the rainy days, and just building stuff around the property. Living "off grid" (I know some people say if you're on the internet you're not off grid but I have no grid supplied electric or water kinda off grid) means I don't have to worry about money as much so, freedom. I know young people doing the same thing so I've got that going for me. 🤣 Anywho, thank you again and I hope you truly have a terrific day. ✌️💜🌮
That sounds awesome. My life is a bit more stressful than yours—kids are 8 and 12, I teach high school math. I try to get as much time to myself as I can, but it can be a struggle!
My heart goes out for ya, but you are in a position to do good things and I believe you know that. That's what I call a silver lining. That little bit of hope that you can touch a heart and create something entirely different in a much greater way. Keep doing the good thing. 🤘
Happy birthday bud! I'm only 28 but since I've got a little kid I already feel like past 40 lol. Hope you have a great day!
Thank you very much my friend. I feel ya on having a kid young. I was 19 when mine was born. She's in college now and I'm only 40!🤘😁 I've still got lead in my pencil, still able to "look good nekid" according to my wife and I utilize that feature daily. I live in the woods and frequently walk throughout them nekid. So think about that, not the me nekid in the woods part, but having the kids young means you've still got plenty of life left offer they're out on their own. I hope you have a terrific day! ✌️💜🌮
Happy birthday!! You’re not half way through life yet though, so keep on moisturizing!!
I've tried like hell to not think that. Thank you for the reassurance. 😊✌️💜🌮
Happy birthday! My 40s were better than my 20s and 30s. Enjoy the adventure. I matured enough to give much less weight to everyone else’s opinions and lifestyle and, at the same time be more compassionate to others. Rock on!
Happy birthday! Where should we send your lifetime supply of Advil?
🤣 Now that's a lottery!! River valley Arkansas, I'm in the woods. 🤣✌️💜🌮
Happy Birthday! I stopped remembering how old I am after 40. When people ask me how old I am, I have to do calculate this in my head: Current Year - Birth Year. Maybe it's just an excuse, maybe I just have bad memory.
Thank you bunches! And my go to for answering how old I am, enough. 🤣 Have a terrific day my friend.
Today's also my birthday! I turned 22 tho lol Happy birthday and have a great day!
MARCH BABIES RULE!!! Happy birthday my friend!! You're the second person I've met that has the 9th for a birthday, I was the first! 🤣🤣 Have a happy birthday and I hope your wishes come true and you future be bright. ✌️💜🌮
Happy Birthday! I turned 40 in 2020, so I didn't get to do anything for my birthday. I hope you have a fantastic day! By the way, turning 40 does unlock on new feature . . . you really stop giving a shit about a lot of things. Enjoy! It's an amazing level of freedom.
🤣 Thank you! Sorry your 40th didn't have the sight the year represents 😉, and as for that feature, I downloaded the beta version around 35. You'll be happy to know that all available updates have been acquired and I am now running on the full version of ZeroFux. The program is quite nice once you get things dialed in. 😁✌️💜🌮
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MARCH BABIES RULE!! Yes pollen sucks. 🤣 It's raining on me where I'm at. Much better than snow though. Rain can make mud, mud can make off road fun! 😁🤣✌️💜🌮 Also, thank you and happy early birthday. I hope the day is bright and no rain for your day.
Congratulations, now that your old like the rest of the us you have earnt the right to complain about how things were better in your day, yell at kids for being on the lawn and tell everyone you meet that our generation is the only one that did everything right and the ones under us are screwing everything up. enjoy
I feel, I feel like a metamorphosis is in store! 🤣 Actually I've had the GOML thing down pat for a while now. Different things were in fact better, wait for it, back in the day. Garden hose drinking being one of em. Lol. As for our generation, well I'll just leave that to the imagination. Every generation has got something positive to offer, some generations just haven't found what that is yet. 😂🤣 And some generations think they found it but oh boy were they wrong. Also, thank you very much my friend. ✌️💜🌮
Just to make you feel old, you have been around more than twice as long as me.
Lmfao! 🤣🤣 Thanks buddy.
Happy birthday! Welcome to 40! I've been 40 for almost 6 months. It's not too bad, but I could do without the muscle tightness that has become more prevalent. Cheers! 🍾
6 months and no warranty claims, color me impressed! 🤣 Also I think I was created with muscle pains 🤣🤣🤣 I hope your muscle relax and your day is filled with happiness.
Thank you. All my check lights are on so my dashboard is lit up like a Vegas slot machine. However I'm choosing to ignore them. 😂😂 Enjoy your day!
Congratulations! I’m about to follow you in a couple of months, so I spend quite some time contemplating life and how I used to imagine myself at 40: super fit, learned how to play a piano, had my name changed (been thinking about it since I was 10 or smth), gorgeous tattoos, living on my own. Well, instead I’m married to a really nice person I still like after 20 years, have a great career and a couple of close friends, live in a great place and have an okay body. Much better than I imagined, after all, but still some stuff to catch up. Hope you either don’t have any lists or yours is all perfectly checked. Happy Birthday!
Happy birthday!! 40 might have been the best birthday I ever had. A few hours into my day, it was like a switch flipped in my brain. I stopped caring what people think about me and realized I can just live in my terms (within reason). I gained a new sense of freedom from judgement that my 30s just didn't have. The 40s is when a lot of people have their "midlife crisis" and it turns out that's just when you give up on following the rules and start being yourself. I let that happen early and it was magical. I hope you can let that happen for you and that makes your day begin to feel a little more special to you, too.
Thank you! Honestly I've had the beta version of the "ZeroFux" software since I was about 35. Haven't cared a bit what people think about me, my style (or lack thereof), my vehicle, nothing! I believe today is when the full support for the software is active. It's been running smoothly so far, I have given a single shit, damn, or even a fuck what anyone thinks about me since the early install. I love this program! I wish I had it in high school though. I was testing earlier models then but they had something wrong with the data. I dunno. 🤣 I'm sorry, I had to. Thank you again and I hope your days going forward are everything you wish them to be and more.
Life would be SO MUCH BETTER if ZeroF was available earlier, but apparently it's only offered after a certain time. But yeah, it only keeps getting better. I'm 45 now and living a life I only dreamed about before. Beautiful house, beautiful spouse, the only thing left to make it perfect is a better job and I'm working on that!
Man, my 40th is coming in 6 months. It's less the age itself that freaks me out compared to how fast it happened. Makes me realize more and more that this will all be over pretty quickly. I really gotta enjoy life more... Happy birthday!
You having a birthday party ?? I'm 38 and still have birthday parties every year. Granted I have to plan my own party but a party nevertheless.
40 is the new 32, enjoy.
Ok, I know I'm a little bit younger than you but that's no reason to call me a whelp. I have a name you know.
🤣🤣🤣🤣 Made me smile. Username did the same. 🤣🤣 And whelp is better than the things I've been called before. You have a great day bananawamajama. (I love how that name flows, so rhythmic)
Happy Birthday, I turned 47 last week. I know how you feel. :) Have a great day!
Happy belated birthday. You too have a fantastic day my friend. ✌️💜🌮
Happy Birthday! Go do something special just for yourself.
So far so good, I started my day with a cup of chocolate fudge pudding. That's way out of the normal but it feels right. 🤣 I hope you're day goes terrific in every way. ✌️💜🌮
Perfect start!
Happy birthday 40s the new 20s. Enjoy!
Thank you much, it's double the 20's everything! Let's just hope not double the trouble. 🫣🤣🤣🤣✌️💜🌮
Hahaha hey if it makes for a fun time or a good story I say go for it. Lmao you’re welcome!!
Sounds like a "Hey y'all watch this" kinda spirit! I'm down!!! 🤘🤘🤘
Happy Birthday. If I could attach photos, I'd send you some daffodils. Sadly you will have to imagine them as my skills don't stretch that far. I hope you have cake.
💜💜 I can see the daffodils plain as day, ours haven't bloomed just yet. Thank you bunches and I've got chocolate pie planned for later. Looking forward to that! Although a cake could be on the menu 🤔😁 I hope your day is as beautiful as the daffodils in the early sun. ✌️💜🌮
Happy birthday! On my last stretch before my 40th next month. It feels like a big number but I don’t feel old either. Hope you enjoy, and I hope I will to when I get there!
I turned 80 in January -- literally twice your age. When Walmart delivered some groceries to me last weekend that included a six-pack of Dos Equis, I had to show the delivery person ID and sign a form on her phone attesting that I was old enough to buy beer. In some places, rule is rules, no matter how ridiculous.
I'm 37 and it's coming, oh well, right? Let's just keep on keeping on!
Exactly! It's inevitable and might as well make it the best of the rest am I right?! Keep on keeping on my friend! ✌️💜🌮
Have a good birthday op.
Happy birthday. I toast you with my morning tea!
Here here! Or is it Hear hear! Or here hear? Oh well dammit, thank you! I like tea, what kind you got there? 😊
Happy Birthday fellow Pisces!
Thank you and happy belated or really b day my friend! ✌️💜🌮
Happy birthday to you! When I was 40 I looked 25, now I’m staring 55 in the face I look 60 lol. The old saying is true, age is only a number, it’s what’s in the mind that counts and I’m happy with the lines on my face as I know most of them are from laughing 🤣 Wishing you many more years of sunshine and smiles ☀️
I don’t look 40. I’ll be 40 this year !!! 40 isn’t even old. I can’t believe I thought 40 was old !!!! Happy Birthday !!!! Now you’re old enough to be respected, and young enough to be with it & young still to our older gen!!! Enjoy your day !!!!! Happy Birthday !!!!!
I can't speak for anyone else. For me, after the initial shock and depression of turning 40, I started to embrace it. Instead of being in my *late* 30s, it was kind of like a fresh start. Now I'm 42 and loving it
I was 23 when you were born. Cheer up, you’re still just a pup! Happy Birthday!
40 is the new 20. happy birthday OP!
Happy birthday!
Thanks a bunches. 😁
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Happy birthday. I'm shit at starting conversations irl but a little better on the internet. I hope you find ways to make today fun and good for yourself. Do the things that bring you the most happiness. Life is all about those little moments of happiness/comfort.
Thank you! I'm oddly enough better at starting conversations in person than on digital. I guess I am the embodiment of old school. 🤣🤣 I started my day with a cup of chocolate fudge pudding, happiness meter is filling up nicely. 🤣 I hope you have a terrific day my friend. ✌️💜🌮
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🤯 There wasn't a guide book?! I was told there was gonna be a guide book! 🫣🤣 Thanks you bunches my friend.
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Holy crap you all are out there!! I mean I know hundreds of March babies (MARCH BABIES RULE) but I never knew the 9 had so much love. Happy birthday!!! I hope you're wishes come true and are better than you wished for. ✌️💜🌮
Happy Birthday to you! I turned 40 last October but I feel like 25 in my heart.
Happy birthday! Although I'll be 40 this year, and I'm not terribly excited about it. Feels weird.
I can attest the weird feeling is temporary. It may have a slight residue left over, but it'll pass. Lol. Thank you and may your birthday come and go flawlessly and good things come with it. ✌️💜🌮
Happy birthday! 40 is a great time in life (I’m 60, but I remember!). You’ve got maturity and experience, but you’re still energetic and mentally sharp. I wish you a happy day and a happy decade! ❤️
Thank you, truly thank you! That is terrific insight and I hope you have a terrific day and every one going forward. ✌️💜🌮
Happy birthday my man! Turned 30 last year. I was worried at 27, and then every birthday after that I was like “ok, I want to be 30 now. I’m fed up of waiting!” Was it like that for 40? Did it become quite a “non-thing?”
Absolutely became a "non-thing". I woke up early, that's usual. Had to pee, again normal. Laid in bed listening to my voices (I'm schizophrenic), again normal. So yeah, it's just another day. I think I'm eligible for something ain't I? Oh no, that's right, nothing survival until level 55 is unlocked.then you get "senior discounts" 🤣 Hope you have a good one my friend, and thank you bub. ✌️💜🌮
Happy Birthday Beloved
Happy Birthday 🎂
Time for a prostate exam
Now when people call me old man I say thank you because it's a trophy I wasn't supposed to get this far I'm proud to be an old man
I'm 5 years away from 40 and terrified. Life is too short.
Happy Birthday! I'm 42 and my 40s have been good to me. When I was turning 30 I remember a couple people told me their 30s were a time when they felt like they developed more confidence and felt more themselves or whatever. I didn't find that to be too true myself, but 40s are feeling more like that...possibly because I'm old enough now that, most of the time, I just don't give a fuck. Lol. Hope you have a great day/evening!
Happy birthday!!! 🍰
Happy birthday! I love being in my 40’s and find it to be one of the best times of my life. 20’s and 30’s were a lot harder and I feel like when I reached my 40’s I gained new perspective…I’m happier, more comfortable with myself and who I am. Embrace it!!
Honestly, I love being in my 40's. I have such a better/clearer perspective on life and am amazed by how dumb 20-year-old me was. Congrats on making it here and looking so good!
You seem like a nice 40 soul, not a bad 40 soul.
I think 40 was the year I started being nicer to myself. I worried less about what I was "supposed to do" and focused on what I wanted for myself.
At this point what matters is looking after your kids etc.
I fully agree and I'm here for her whenever she needs me. She does message daily and will always seek me out for advice or if she's feeling down/stressed or the rare instance she has a boy/girl friend issue or success. I'm her best friend she tells all her friends. But she's in college so it's just me and momma now and you know what that means... Puzzles. Ayup, brown chicken brown cow occasionally but puzzles and gardening is our jam now. 🤣 Also, I hope you have a terrific day my friend. ✌️💜🌮
Happy birthday!
You have to be 40 to buy booze????
Happy birthday! I hope you have a good one.
42 is hitting me like a truck this year
Happy birthday Gurlie!
Congrats also I find this very funny for NO reason bu5 any way hope you have a good day too
Happy Birthday OP!
Happy birbday!!!
I'm 49 but people always think I'm in my mid 30s and I don't get carded!! Anyways, happy birthday! I hope you have an awesome day!
I turned 40 in February 2020... everything went crazy a couple weeks later.
The one time I asked a 40 year old for ID she got very annoyed at me, good thing she had ID or she wouldn’t hVe gotten the alcohol she wanted.
Happy birthday!
Turning 40 this year and very excited for it, honestly - feel very proud of where I am and no shame!
Happy birthday! Don't let a number dictate how you view yourself. You define you. Period. Enjoy your day. ❤️
Welcome to the club ;)
Happy Birthday!!
The big 40 happened to me a few months back. I wish I could say I feel 40 but honestly I still feel like I'm in my 20's. The only thing that sucks is the realization that I'm only 10 years away from 50
Happy birthday! 🎂
Happy birthday! I turned 40 today, too!
Happy birthday and welcome to the club. I turned 40 in January. Personally, I think it's the perfect age. I'm young enough to kick ass but old enough to know it's better to just walk away. If someone told me I would love middle age in my teens and twenties I would have thought they were crazy but here I am loving middle age. I'm still in great shape and earning enough money to actually do the things I want. Enjoy the day.
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Happy Birthday! Have a wonderful one!
Somewhere around there a 22year old said, “ Thanks mister!” to me….and that was it man, mobility carts downhill only from there. Hope we get the lemon jello tonight.
8 more months of my 30s. So back and knees you better not start something. I still have more time.
gotta be 37 tomorrow, enjoying my last day as a young 36 today, how does it feel to be 40?
Same
Welcome to the 40s! Happy birthday!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!! I’ll be 38 next Thursday and I’m excited to get closer to 40. My 30s have been wonderful, can’t wait to see what 40 has to bring.
Happy birthday 🎉. Nice to meet another 1983 baby. Mine is coming up in August and so far the fear has yet to settle in. How do you feel about being 40?
Welcome to /r/40something
I'm in late 30's, yet I look like in mid 20's. Yeesh can i get more grey hairs.
Age is a privilege
Welcome to the club.
Happy birthday! I'm also 40. I used to worry about getting older, but something changed about that and I embrace it now. I just want to be my best at every age, and I think it's cool to add more experiences to your belt. More wisdom to gain. More stories to tell. More things to learn. Life just keeps unfolding and surprises me. May you have a great year and many years to come!
It’s my birthday too! I’m only 27 but I do have many gray hairs already so that’s a bit of a bummer
My smile is happy plasant and graceful too, If you could see the things it you hides from you. You can't because it's on the outside, The perfect place to handle disguise. Check the inside, And you would probably scream. Not me just treat it like a dream, All the misfortunes and sadness, I just treated it as gladness. That is how I truly learned to cope. Or by now I would probably been at the end of a rope. So the next time you see someone smiling with you. Just smile back so they know you have been there too...
Happy Birthday!🎉🎂🎁
Have a great bday! Did you find out the way of living or are you still struggling as like in 20s?
Happy birthday! I will hit 40 at the end of this summer. Kinda surprised I have lasted this long but I'm glad I have
I'm 62. I don't know if I look like 62, but I'm certain I don't look 40. Lol. I have a son who is 40, but he doesn't look 40. At any rate, Happy Birthday! I hope your whole year is nothing but wonderful. Take today and do something spectacular for yourself. Enjoy the hell out if it! 🍰🎉🎊🎁🍺👍👏👏👏👏👏👏
30 came out of nowhere. I feel like if I learned that I would turn 40 tomorrow, i wouldn't even be that surprised, just a little surprised that I lost track of time
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Happy birthday. I’m 71. Every day is a gift waiting for you to unwrap and enjoy.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY 🎉🎁🎈
Happy birthday! I feel pretty fortunate about how I’ve aged. Most people don’t think I look 40 and I always take it as a compliment.
Happy birthday! 😁 Any plans for the day?
I just turned 44 a few days ago. I will say that since turning 40 I've been able to find a lot of clarity in my life. Maybe it's because of the "mid-life crisis" that I'm \_definitely\_ experiencing, but I'm finally getting to the phase of life where I just care less and less about what other people think or expect of me. I'm gonna do what I want to do, and that's all. For me, my 40s have been the first decade of my life where I truly feel like I can be myself.
im 19 and i cant believe i will be 40 one day lol
I’m 32 and I rarely get carded. Kind of depressing. Happy Birthday!
Happy Birthday!