The absolute absence of shits I now give.
Your toilet vehemently disagrees with you.
Not dying at 39. This is weird lol. Aging isn’t optional.
You stop giving a shit about famous people.
only 40 years until retirement (/s)
Being immune to the vagaries of pop culture and being pleasantly baffled when celebs make the news and you have no fucking idea who they are.
It’s also kind of wild because a lot of the really, really famous young people look entirely the opposite of the super-good-looking A-listers of the past. Guess its great that the younger generation seem less superficial than we were, but my programming struggles to process it when I see some pasty, odd looking dweeb and find out they’re outstreamng the Beatles or whatever.
as a woman: less street harassment.
Turning 40 freaked me out a bit, but it hasn’t been that bad, outside of the whole “collapsing society” thing that’s been going on the last several years. I have a wonderful wife and kid, chickens, a dog, a cat with a heart full of disdain, and two dorky cars. I have good neighbors, a decent job, I honestly feel kinda guilty for how well I’ve been doing since I turned 40.
Experiencing all the various pain you only ever read about.
Oh, wait…
It’s almost over.
Most of the advantages don’t come from being over 40, but rather, from the experience of having lived over 40 years. What you have is knowledge and perspective. You can make better choices, fall into fewer traps. It’s that “wisdom” thing you may have heard of.
Also, as most people over 40 have been working for some time now, many of us (though definitely not all) have reached a different phase of their life financially. In my 20s, when things went wrong it was generally like “well, this is my life now”, but in my 40s when something goes wrong it’s more often like “ok, how much will it cost for this problem to go away?”. And don’t forget, with all of that wisdom we have, sometimes we can just solve the problem, but when that won’t work, throwing money at problems is generally effective.
Finally, I think someone already said it, but it’s worth repeating. You stop giving a shit about a lot of things, and it’s liberating. It feels like honesty and confidence and contentment.
This is the right answer.
Having habits that you have honed to benefit you and having enough experience to develop forethought.
You’ve got a lot of good stories to tell.
Mid 40 here.
I’m hard pressed for advantages. I care less for opinions of others, but also feel immense frustration that those exact opinions influence my life too often.
I appreciate many things more because I have the experience to know how much effort they were, but also lost my fascination amd feeling of wonder.
I think it is not an issue with being older as such. It is the time we live in.
Struggles increasing while the body and mind are decreasing.
Honestly, the only disadvantage is that you can start to feel your body breaking down.
Everything else just gets better. You’re wiser, smarter, more confident, less bothered, and you have fewer fucks to give.
And honestly, I look hotter now than I did in my twenties or thirties.
If only the world didn’t keep on getting worse every year.
if you do put in the work you can feel better than when you were younger.
you see all this carastrophic obesity going on/ insomnia/stress and its no wonder people are feeling shit all the time. you can feel your body breaking down before 40.
not like youre going to reverse aging but you can at least give yourself and your loved ones a break from dealing with something like an early stroke or unable to physically care for yourself for a significant part of your life.
Yeah, I’m trying to get better at that. More exercise, more stretching, more vegetables in my diet. It’s a process, but I’m starting to feel the difference.
Awesome! same. agreed it is a process. I kind of wish this kind of thing was more normalized so that it would feel less like a massive adjustment of shaking off the sugar/salt/fat/sitting/drama addictions imposed by so much of the media and capitalism.
Seconded. In the last 12 months, my eyesight has taken a turn and I am not sleeping as well. Less focus, forgetting more things, having to ask, “What?” way more often.
The focus might be brain rot… Need to get off Lemmy.
You don’t have to wait as long to die.
You no longer fear death, you yearn for it
Planning happens too. Gotta look after your own corpse. Yearning is for when you don’t have enough girl cock to suck.
