Still feel the same

Years ago, when my favourite tante turned 40, I thought the world ended.
She suddenly became very old to my eyes. 40..
I felt 40 was the stepping stone to old age. I felt sorry for tante.. that she was old all of a sudden.
I think she acted the ‘old’ part well too..She ate like a pig, for who was going to be concerned about how she looks, now that she is 40?? dressed not so well, again who cared any more?
I have to tell, Tante was one of the few people in my childhood who wore high( read very high) heels and wore sleeveless blouse often with plunging( read really plunging) necklines in the early 70’s. she also had matching jewellery for all her outfits.. from that, she morphed to this nondescript woman who wore ill fitting clothes, flat bata slippers and no matching jewellery when she turned 40.

So technically I thought hitting 40 was the road to no return.

well.. this morning, I am officially 40 years plus one day old. I still feel the same. I still want to marry Bon Jovi when I grow up..( My kids still haven’t come to terms with that and are trying to figure out when exactly would I grow up)
Nothing has changed.
I still can wear the same clothes i wore 20 yrs ago. ( kept my jeans from medical college day, just as a token of memory and it still fits!!!)
So all in all , it is good to be 40..Hopefully i feel just the same in a decade..and if not, I shall crib here as usual.

4 thoughts on “Still feel the same

  1. Hey, Happy B'day!! I am getting to that ripe old age of 40 soon in few months. But I feel better than ever and I am going to be grading soon for my first degree Black Belt. My friend recently told me that 40's was the new 30's 🙂

    Hang in there. Life has a way of working out. I too have my shares of issues and one of the best sayings that I read and truly believe is :
    ” What the Caterpillar calls the end of the World, God calls a Butterfly”.

    I think you are in the process of becoming a butterfly.. All will be well. You know “Success is Failure turned inside out”. Don't worry about what people tell you or think about you. You know yourself, so stay anchored in yourself. You are complete success material. Most of the successful people were not successful until they turned 40. 40 is truly a magical number. Things will turn around for you soon.

    You are being very tough on yourself as a Mother, seems like an A type personality, which also got you through Med school without failing in any subject!! 🙂

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