How hard was it for you to accept turning 40?

[Mike]

40 itself was fine. I was resigned to it. But not long after I hit a midlife crisis when I realized I was pretty unhappy about a lot of things and had no real answers.

 

[surgeyou1]

48 but I get constantly asked if I am even 18

Pics or gtfo

 

[fingercuffs]

Gosh love her and I miss her so much every day but my mum grew up in a very old environment which kind of projected onto me that I shouldn't shave my legs because when you start you'll have to do it every day and that I should be wearing petticoats under my skirts and dresses. I used to sit for an hour every morning before going to school with her blowdrying and curling my hair under into a pageboy.

When I think of my mum at 40, she, even if she didn't go out, was doing her hair and make-up for a good 2 hours. Even when she was in hospital for weeks.

So when I hit that age, I just didn't care. Fuck having that bind to look your best even if no one is going to see you and you're in flippin hospital for 6 weeks after a hystorectomy.

 

[Mr. Shickadance]

I admit I was fucking dreading it. 40 is fucking old. A female friend of mine who's single and childless just turned 40 and she is undergoing some pretty extreme depression. I figure it hits girls a lot harder than guys.

I have this weird thing of excepting things as they come at me and dealing with them like an adult, some call it being a man others call it being a sherdogger

 

[Flower2dPeople]

Easy. Barely an inconvenience.

Wow, wow, wow.



Wow.

 

[SKYNET]

it wasn't rough in any way
no different than turning 39 or 41.

 

[cmw43]

I see this thread is full of people as usual looking "ten years younger" than their age.

I've still got two years to go till 40, I think I look my age, getting some grey in my beard, still in good shape with no injuries and training BJJ with the youngsters every week.

I'm happy in my life and career although I did imagine myself having kids by now and I can see why that would be tougher for women because at my age that window is almost shut.

 

[lsa]

It‘s all relative. I am 48 but I get constantly asked if I am even 18. I have to ask my wife to get coffee for me because i get carded when I buy a latte machiato. The other day some old lady walked up to me and wiped away the snot off my nose.

Dude I shaved my beard and now I look 22.
I know I look at least 25 years younger than I am because somebody once told me.
@dildos can confirm

He looks 12 btw and its really annoying for him.
Especially when hitting on ladies.

 

[KBE6EKCTAH_CCP]

I see this thread is full of people as usual looking "ten years younger" than their age.

I've still got two years to go till 40, I think I look my age, getting some grey in my beard, still in good shape with no injuries and training BJJ with the youngsters every week.

I'm happy in my life and career although I did imagine myself having kids by now and I can see why that would be tougher for women because at my age that window is almost shut.

10 years? GTFO with that ghey shit. Sherdoggers look at least 20 years younger than their age. Over they years the catalogue of Sherdogger‘s prerequisites have evolved:
- 6‘3
- < 10 % BF
- bench teh 275
- earn 6 figures
- intact hairline
- adequate zygos ( at least 8 fusions, although a full Khabib is preferred). Ask @ChickenBrother
- looks 20 years younger than his age

 

[Ballsaque]

I admit I was fucking dreading it. 40 is fucking old. A female friend of mine who's single and childless just turned 40 and she is undergoing some pretty extreme depression. I figure it hits girls a lot harder than guys.

In the best shape of my life and look the best currently. Though there is a few years to the big 40, but If you do the correct things to have a good life, why would 40 be problematic?

 

[Takes Two To Tango]

I see this thread is full of people as usual looking "ten years younger" than their age.

I've still got two years to go till 40, I think I look my age, getting some grey in my beard, still in good shape with no injuries and training BJJ with the youngsters every week.

I'm happy in my life and career although I did imagine myself having kids by now and I can see why that would be tougher for women because at my age that window is almost shut.

Ten years younger for me is true and for most of us we've aged better than other generations. Not sure why, people back than looked a lot older at our age.

 

[Patrick Jane]

I'm in my 20's but i'm looking forward to turning 40 and especially 50.

 

[Bacco]

About to do 41 in less than a week

Kinda sucks but at same time guess how much is where you're in life

Today i have my own home, a stable job, even some money... 20 or even 15 years ago i had none of that, so yes was younger but too busy stress myself over shit to fix to fully enjoy my youth

Of course i had much more wild fun in my 20s than now but that's given, that's phase of your life if you're not partying and shit you're doing it wrong lol

 

[Hellowhosthat]

Didn't really bother me. Yes I'm getting older but it's better than the alternative.

 

[Dream Evil]

Turning 40 didn't bother me.

But the fact that 50 is the next milestone.... Damn that sounds old

 

[AFanNotAFighter]

Didn't bother me at all. Turning 30 was way worse.