I'm 46 and 3 months

Brad, the 30's are when you just start getting up to speed. In your 40's, you're cruising in the fast lane!

Don't worry about what you "should" have at a given age; it's meaningless. I was almost 38 before I found my sweetiebear and settled down. I still don't own a house... Big deal. I'm me regardless.

Just be yourself. Work to change the things about you that you don't like, but don't sweat the things you can't change. Concentrate on the important things in life (friends, family, health, having fun).

Oh, and finally, I'm a firm believer that your prince will never come while you're looking for him. Once you are happy with where and who you are, he'll appear.

Bad advice, G.C.

(Sorry, but Gemini Cricket and I are in the begining stages of an elaborately contrived Prince Hunt that will take up a not-insignificant amount of time and energy ... but will be tons of fun in the process).


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I'm always amazed at how consistently people express they would never go back to their 20's. Even me, and I LOVED my 20's, had the MosT FuN EveR ... but would never go back to anything before 32.


Even then ... that's a minimum. I think most of us get better and better and better with age. If you have that to look forward to, then it's all ahead of you no matter what. Because truly it doesn't matter what you have or what you are doing. Concentrate on who you are being, who you want to be next, what to do to better be the person you want to BE. All the fantastic haves and do's will flow from that.


So since you generally BE better with time, time is truly on your side. Don't fret about 37 as the gateway to your 40's. (Although i had my advance mid-life C at 39, and got it out of the way ... it never came at 40.)


I'm working at not freaking myself at my current 47 as the gateway drug to my 50's, and I admit I'm having problems with it. But it's all relative, and it's all meaningless.


But thanks for freaking at 37, Brad. It makes it seem much easier for me to not freak at 47.

I'm going to turn 48 next week....and I TOTALLY AGREE!

I'll be 34 this Saturday, and still acting like 12. :D

<Harrumph!> I'm only letting you get away with that because you're older than me. ;)

Hah, there's not a true boomer among us. Funny to think of it that way.


--Tangent in my head--
"Usa da booma!"
"Meesa no hava booma!"
"Take-a ooo dis one."


We were watching a movie made in 1969 last night and it shocked me how out of date everything looked. I remember when the 60's were just a whisper away from my own childhood, embedded in my mind by the movies and music that made their way into my head growing up. Now, the 60's are so long ago, it makes me feel old to look at it....even though I wasn't even alive then. Weird.

When I turned 30, I can't say I had a "crisis", but I definitely felt 30. Growing up is still exciting to me and I look at every step as an adventure. (I'm sure this will hold until my hair grays and my joints ache.)

GC, I don't know if anything anyone says here can make you feel better, especially from someone younger than you. However, I do have one question - you're going to take dating advice from iSm? Really? :evil:

Technically anyone born between 1946-1964 is a baby boomer, although "peak year" were 1952-1957. So, there are many Boomers among us (me included) and a few that are from the peak years, but I'm not going to "out" them. ;)

You had to say it, didn't you? In May I will be 49. That's right, 1959. Last child of the fifties. Officially pushing 50. End of the boom.

Funny thing, though. In my twenties, I was married, working to make ends meet, had a daughter, etc. Then I jumped off the treadmill.

I'm looking forward to being in a place in my fifties that most people I know were at in their twenties: single, debt-free, and responsible for no one but myself. I'm actually now physically and emotionally healthier than I ever have been. I feel like Daniel Stern in "City Slickers". My life is a do over.

And I'm just getting started.

I know, it doesn't seem possible, does it? I still (somewhat vaguely, but it's there) recall when I first got up the nerve to start posting, and you were very sweet to this newb. :)

Less than a month to go before we hit your area- fair warning, young man!:cheers:

<takes pitty plate>>

I'm gonna be 38 in May. My motto is that I've been younger but at 37 - this is the oldest I've ever been. It seems the problems of my youth seem farther away and are replaced with newer suckier ones making me with I had the problems of my youth.


<<passes pitty plate - keeps the bills>>