Right Where I Want to Be
I always felt like 40. Last week I actually got there.
At least for me, it is an age that looks back at past mistakes and smiles. There is enough distance now, thank God, and those who would point to my mistakes more than ten years ago have not been paying attention to my achievements in the last ten years.
It is an age that regards youth as more of a handicap of the mind instead of an advantage of the body. It is able to forgive youth for being stupid. It is able to forgive anyone for being stupid, unless they’re over 40 and should have known better.
It is an age of honing established skills instead of trying to find them. It is purposeful discovery instead of reckless experimentation. It is accomplishing dreams instead of dreaming accomplishments. It is an age of definitive choices, because there’s no more room for ambiguity.
It is an age that demands big words and big ideas to be part of daily communication, because forty years is a very long time not to have compiled some big words and big ideas.
It is an age where truth is chosen because it is less work.
2 Replies to “Right Where I Want to Be”
I’ll be up there with you soon. From this entry, you make it so much less painful. :)
Your life really starts in your forties, regardless of the constant media insistance youth is all we should glorify and aim to keep. Out with that already. We underestimate knowledge, experience and wisdom, when they are all treats given to us by nature in due time. Those treats are all powerful and rewarding because we get them in small doses.Enjoy your forties, fifties and sixties, they are your best time, dude. I’m right behind you.