getting close to 40
POSTED BY: boris
UPDATED: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 13:02
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Originally posted by SpaceAnJL:
Far as I can see, age is just a state of mind. As long as we keep following our own goofy little stars, I reckon we'll stay young and interested in life, in our heads, at least.
I just had a birthday (there's a party thread) and as far as I am concerned it just meant that people gave me a load of neat stuff for my kitchen. (cookbooks - not one of which has any indication of 'diet' or 'low fat' anywhere in it's conception.)
Recently, at a friend's house, the dinner talk turned to DIY and property prices. I had the urge to put two forks up my nose and shout 'wibble'. I was also one of the oldest people there. *sigh*
I don't think having a house and paying a mortgage means you have to hang up your enthusiasm for anything - it just means that you have your own space to put all your comic books in!
HA! Truer words were never spoken! Good to see there are folk out there like me. Ya I have more responsibilities and as such have to BE more responsible but that doesn't mean I'm not allowed to eat Count Chocula cereal whilst watching Teen Titans cartoons with my little girls.
I play softball at the ripe old age of 40 and only plan on stepping back from that sport when my body can't keep up with my mind anymore. And that's not gonna happen because I will it not to be so.
There's a difference in the definitions. Some people say to grow up because they see you loving a TV show and think it's immature. To me immature is someone that can't accept responsibility, NOT someone that exersizes their imagination.
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Originally posted by SpaceAnJL:
There is a poem that starts '
"i am old, i am old - i shall wear the bottom of my (brown) trousers rolled"
ts elliot.
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I so like your response to this one Magdalena.
Turned 40 a couple of months ago and too be honest I don't know what alll the fuss is about, I am quite enjoying it.
I was plenty out spoken prior to turning 40 and always said that once I reach the myhthical middle age I would say exactly what I wanted without hesitation, well I am 40 and I do say what I think and boy (or girl) it feels so much better.
Its not my fault if someone wants to know what I think of them and they don't like what's said, if you don't want to know the truth do not ask the question is my new motto.
Anyway life after 40 is good, as far as I'm concerned, enjoy it and have fun.
There is too much frowning and not enough smiling in this world. 
Just been to France, lovely place the majority of people we met were really friendly, just have a go at the local lingo and join in it worked for us.
Why have they taken the sky from ME
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can't wait to be forty, sounds like a liberating kind of milestone...getting kind of sick of my thirties now anyway.
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Originally posted by Zephyr1956:
I'm 51, amd dress as an Independent Soldier at conventions. "growing up" is highly over-rated in that regard. My opinion, you hold down a job, take care of you and yours, pay your bills, and enjoy life...thats plenty grown up enough. and if the "enjoy life" part includes being involved in a fanbase for a cancelled TV show, and interacting with wonderful browncoated friends, well, folk who don't understand that need to mind their own business.
*claps*
Well said Zeph, and I agree one hundred percent.
To the Special Hell with what some people think. Let them look down their noses at us. Let them whisper that we're "strange" because we are fans of a dead tv show. Let them laugh because they don't understand. I for one feel sorry for them because they will never know the camaraderie I have found with my fellow browncoats. They will never know that feeling of being part of something bigger than themselves.
Grow up hell! I'm staying young at heart until the day I check out.
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