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Started by mongers, November 02, 2013, 05:52:16 PM

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PDH

Quote from: Ed Anger on November 02, 2013, 07:51:28 PM

It's overrated. The sex several times in a day, not the 50 part.

It has only been overrated when I am getting it.  Last month...overrated.  This month, sadly underrated.
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
-Umberto Eco

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dps

Only birthday that had any real significance to me was 18.  Legal adulthood.

sbr

18 and 21 were very cool.

Turning 30 didn't affect me much, I was pretty happy and in a good place.  My little brother turning 30 4 years later affected me more.

I turned 40 3 years ago, that was the roughest ofo my birthdays so far.  I am dreading 50, but at 7 years away it isn't much more real than 70 or 80.

Both of my parents turn(ed) 70 this year and my youngest daughter turns 18 right after Christmas.  All of those have me more jacked up than any of my own personal birthdays so far.

CountDeMoney

Quote from: sbr on November 02, 2013, 08:43:17 PM
I turned 40 3 years ago, that was the roughest ofo my birthdays so far.  I am dreading 50, but at 7 years away it isn't much more real than 70 or 80.

Both of my parents turn(ed) 70 this year and my youngest daughter turns 18 right after Christmas.  All of those have me more jacked up than any of my own personal birthdays so far.

Meh, I just put an extra round in the cylinder for the Russian Roulette Birthday Bash Extravaganza.  Beats adding more candles to the cake.

sbr

I learned recently that on average electricians only live 5 years after retiring.  That works pretty well with my retirement plan, so Im pretty excited.

mongers

Quote from: sbr on November 03, 2013, 12:40:17 PM
I learned recently that on average electricians only live 5 years after retiring.  That works pretty well with my retirement plan, so Im pretty excited.

:lol:
"We have it in our power to begin the world over again"

Siege

Whoa, Mongers is 50?
Why do you keep acting like a teenager?


"All men are created equal, then some become infantry."

"Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don't."

"Laissez faire et laissez passer, le monde va de lui même!"


Valmy

I have set certain goals to reach by the time I turn 40 in 2017.  That is pretty much the only reason that milestone means alot.  If I make it, it will be one triumphant feeling.
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Maladict

Quote from: Siege on November 03, 2013, 09:12:35 PM
Whoa, Mongers is 50?
Why do you keep acting like a teenager?

What's your age again?

Josquius

Every birthday is a time for panicked depression
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To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

KRonn

I don't think I ever really got depressed over birthdays as I got older, or as I hit milestones like 30, 40, etc. I expected that I should feel depressed but it never really happened. Probably turning 30 was the most significant number because it seemed to signal the beginning of the end of youth, the beginning of getting older.

Savonarola

I celebrated my 21st birthday by working a third shift at a big box store.  That was a depressing milestone.

I had proposed to CB a week before my 40th birthday and moved to Florida a few months before that.  That was a period of change for me, but change for the better.   :)
In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace—and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock

Savonarola

Quote from: Valmy on November 03, 2013, 09:22:10 PM
I have set certain goals to reach by the time I turn 40 in 2017.  That is pretty much the only reason that milestone means alot.  If I make it, it will be one triumphant feeling.

What are your 40 goals (if you don't mind sharing)?
In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace—and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock

Richard Hakluyt

Quote from: KRonn on November 04, 2013, 07:35:05 AM
I don't think I ever really got depressed over birthdays as I got older, or as I hit milestones like 30, 40, etc. I expected that I should feel depressed but it never really happened. Probably turning 30 was the most significant number because it seemed to signal the beginning of the end of youth, the beginning of getting older.

Yes, same for me.

I'm 57 later this month, most of the future milestones are pretty cool and involve getting pensions, senior discounts and so on.