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Nmicke
Getting older beats the alternative
InflationEnjoyer
YOU'RE 40 HANK
DeVermisMysteriis
I'm 43
Ellisd83
Happy Birthday! I just turned 40 too and only 1 person cared =(
ShoopDeDoop
You used the wrong color.
Spoonland
43 here. Welcome to the club. Soon everyone under 25 will make you feel old but also better than them
FromTheBeyond
I used to get bummed about getting older, until I realized the alternative, being dead, was much worse. Enjoy and congratulations.
sameoldroad
AstronglywordedEmail
I just hit 47 in jan... its been crap and it gets worse if you keep holding on to anger and resentment. Try and learn to let go or at least give less fucks.. stop harboring hate towards people and things you can't control. It's ok to not want people to eat at your table and also not want them to starve.....
SomeUser2
@op I’m hitting 50 in a few months, 40’s is the time you learn to give less f*cks, and say more “f*ck it, lets roll with it”. (Oh and you start enjoying the music in the supermarket somehow)
TheCloney
Because the music in the supermarket is now the shit you used to listen to as a teenager, and that you would never hear in one back then. Its hilarious when stuff comes on that would never have been allowed in the past.
SomeUser2
hoopsnek
Lynkfox
Gangs all here.
IcyFlash2
Oh, Bruce Willis is a lot older than that now…
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majorminers
OaksParcel
Bruce Willis was only 33 in Die Hard.
TheChandrian
Viggo Mortensen is now older than Ian McKellen was when he played Gandalf.
HobbiesAndOtherItems
Getting old is a privilege that many people never get. (This is a saying I tell my 50 year old self a lot).
blucati
It’s weird being the same age as old people
PrincessWendyB
Child I've been 45 for 20 years now. Life is a banquet and most poor suckers are starving to death.
MarshalFunChef
Make the days count @op, don’t count the days.
KamikazeGerbil101
You young people !
Shepherdd1983
I’ll be there in 2 months
vissago
welcome. we have back problems and an intolerance to even modest amounts lf alcohol here.
isthisusernametakenquestionmark
I just recently got really into Scotch 😄
idontlikepickingusername
Really, I just discovered mixed cocktails...I hear you about the back though.
vissago
our newest thing is lambrusco vinegar in fizzy water. just a dash, but its delicious :D
brianglass10
Better than not making it to 40!
mypostsecrets
I wish I were 40. Call me in another 12 years, see how you feel then.
Idonotbelievewehavecompany
I am up to level 51 now. Have some fun!
Nathanyel
Where did you grind that XP?
Idonotbelievewehavecompany
Game called Life, graphics are over the top but the enemies are a lot stronger than led to believe in earlier levels
q2grapple
I also just leveled up to 51. Waiting for my new spells to arrive
Luficer
46.....47 this summer...... everything hurts
incendras
Turning 40, where did all these hurts come from!?
daemogorgon
Those high levels are where you learn amazing moves like Flamethrower right?
a0b1
No
Fluffydeathkitten
Congrats
TonyBalogna
I always upvote Richardson.
geraltofriva
FlatPlutoSociety
It's better than *not* turning 40. Not *that* much better, but better.
Monkeytron
Time to do something you always wanted to try, but always ended up putting in the ”some day” category! Those days are now!
RamosIsANerd
It's better than the alternative.
PiercedViking
I don't know, man. When is the last time you heard anyone that died before they turned 40 complain about it?
RamosIsANerd
brujahenforcer
How do we make it stop?
sethb1978
You don’t want to know
keenankj
I hear level 40 is when you get a mount. Good luck with that!
DunnowForgot
I got 2 mounts, but the gas prices keep going up.
Cataleast
The problem with that is that you should've been grinding gold all the way up to 40 to afford the skill & mount.
ZoidbergIsGreat
Vanilla reference!
Thresholdpush
I turned 45 in March. Soak up life, Holmes. Get outside. Go with the fuckin' flow. Stop resisting.
Aksuuuh
DerelictTwitterCrash
Going 41 in a few days. Stop giving a shit, give value to important things, do the absolute minimum at work when working with assholes, try to remember what is really important. Stop giving a shit, focus on what brings you happyness and balance, say no more often, and more importantly : stop giving a shit.
CaptSchmidtGaming
thefnord
March too, 41. Can't stop, won't stop, not sure how to stop.
professionallazyperson
How? 30 here. Is the resisting just something that my career will beat out of me if I just give it enough time?
iwanttobebobdylan
You just run out of shits to give. You realize that everything is bullshit and fabricated and you no longer care about anyone else's opinions ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Valaar
Don't forget that today is the youngest you will be compared to the rest of your life. Enjoy being 40, 45 or what age, it's in most case much better tha, you know, the alternative to getting older.
iwanttobebobdylan
I'll turn 46 in a few months. This is the way.
Tovarish1013
Resistance is futile.
squelcheswetly
This person fucks.
NotCthulhu
Stop resisting, be a cop.
murderhobbit
Resistance is futile
xj4low
Gotta keep wearing your cargo pants and being you.
BojanglesTheFlyingCar
Less time inside
baagroak
Enjoy life, you have no choice.
randomdudefromtheinternet
Well you do, but if it's between being miserable and enjoying life i'd choose the latter
professionallazyperson
Albert Camus is good for this, especially The Myth of Sisyphus. Basically life is absurd but the answer isn’t suicide, it’s instead to revolt against the absurdity and live based only on what you know to be true.
FlaminkoFactor
Yes! I will always upvote Monsieur Albert Camus
scottEkarate
Hey, are we baby genXers or ancient millenials? Everyone has a different answer. I guess it doesn't really matter.
FlaminkoFactor
Wikipedia defines millennials as being born between 1981-96, but I do agree that it’s always contentious around the generational edges, and in some ways arbitrary/subjective
BojanglesTheFlyingCar
Xenials
Thresholdpush
X. But yeah, don't much matter. X is 65-80.
GCRust
We used to be called Generation Y with Millennials coming in behind us. Then at some point, Gen Y ceased being a thing and we got redistributed between Gen X and Millennials. We're the Oregon Trail generation.
scottEkarate
I've heard Xennials...just make up some shit
Doismellbacon
Oh, that's why I died of dysentery and have an insatiable taste for bear meat!
Twinklepot
In a graveyard near us there is a tiny grave. It's the grave of a baby who's entire life amounted to one single day.
C141Clay
Twinklepot
Also, happy birthday @OP!! Hope you have a great day!
RTK4740
I had a friend die when he was 21. Every day I get that he didn’t, I try to believe is a miracle I did get. I salute my buddy every year on my birthday. Bob. You’re on my mind. I bet you’d have loved to make it to 40.
UneventfulLover
Puts things in perspective. I just had a chat with people my age from my homeplace and we reminisced about the comrades that were lost along the road since the 70s, some to accidents, some to physical illness and some to mental illness. Living sure beats the alternative.
thedevil
Damn spawn campers.
InvidiousSquid
I can't tell if we're feeling bad for the baby, appreciating life, or dabbing on the baby, or maybe all of the above.
JPRiddles
Well, as I always say, "dab on my haters' graves 420"
Twinklepot
Appreciating 40 years+, versus one single day was my own thought.
TheMadOnion
My personal thought is that baby was probably spared. I'm not saying I want to die or anything, But if I had the choice to like never have existed and I would have no memory of it.. It would be attempting offer. Of course there have been good days to my life but all too many are just terrible... Lol
dj5897
JPRiddles
Exactly this. My ex used to say "didn't that great experience make you happy you're alive?" And I'm like: "it was fun, but I'd still rather never have existed" she didn't get that you can't miss something you've never had and no matter what amazing people or things I experience, the void is infinitely preferable!
TheMadOnion
Truly the only comfort in my life is knowing that one day I'll never have to experience any of this shit ever again. Nothing will have mattered I will simply cease to be, all that I am will be gone. I will leave a legacy, a small one. But people will remember me. My comments on various online forms will probably last a hundred years maybe even longer. But from my perspective it'll be like nothing ever happened I won't even have a perspective. True nothing. Sounds peaceful.