Life Begins at 40 – Lets Make it Happen!

Do you remember when you were a youngster and thought that anybody over 40 was past it? Indeed anybody out of his or her teens seemed ancient when I was a child. My how our perceptions alter, as we grow older!

Past what? I wonder now as I slip into my 50s feeling little difference in my head as I felt 30 years ago. I'm still the same person with wiser thoughts in the same body as I was in 1978. Back then I was strutting my stuff in the clubs to Saturday Night Fever, I can still raise a jig but now it's more likely to be to a Dizzee Rascal track.

Just last week a 19 year old work colleague was astonished to hear that I have actually seen male strippers. Why I wondered? Did she think that I have always been this age and that anybody over 20 never has any fun? I promptly arranged a staff night out to see a male stripper soon - I just hope that I don't get dragged on to the stage with him!

My naive young colleague thinks that my generation are too old f or sex – she won't be thinking that in a few years!

We don't have to stop enjoying ourselves, as we grow older - indeed I find that now I have more to enjoy and appreciate life better. My young work colleagues tell me that they sleep for 12 – 14 hour stretches. I remember doing that when I was their age – now if I sleep for more than 7 hours I feel as if I'm missing out on life. I have so much more to do and want the time to do it.

For those of us fortunate enough to have children and grandchildren life takes on a whole new focus. I have a 4 year old grandson and 3 year old granddaughter. A few months ago I was babysitting and my grandson looked up from playing with his cars on the floor and asked me if I was too old to play with him. "Never" I replied as I knelt down to play.

We both enjoyed half an hour of play and ok my knees ached when they wouldn't have done when I was younger, but it was worth the knee ache to enjoy quality time with my grandson. I wondered where he had got the idea from or who had told him that they were too old to play - perhaps one of his other grandparents who are no older than me. Whoever it was they missed out. I will never be too old to play with my grandchildren and can still kick a football around even if I get out of puff quicker than I used to.

I have more interests now and am happy to be myself and not pretend to be somebody I'm not just to impress others. I don't panic when things happen, age and experience has taught me to stay calm and in control.

I've often heard my contemporaries use the clichés 'If I knew then what I know now' and 'If I could turn back the clock'. I don't want to turn back the clock, sure there are things that I would like to change if I had the chance but I know that I can't so the future is more important.

To me life is a great adventure where you can never predict what is going to happen, nor would I wish to. For all of us there are good and bad things waiting around the corner but at least with age and experience we learn to enjoy or deal with things better. Ok our bodies start to betray us even before we reach 40 but there are things that we can do to improve matters and slow down the effect of aging on our bodies. How I did that is for another article, right now I'm going to make it happen!

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Having a positive outlook on life helps me to feel younger and healthier. I wanted to meet more like minded people and decided to start my own Over 40s Club – come join us for some 'older' fun!