Does life really begin at 40 or is it down hill from here?

Question

I have found that my life just keeps going from bad to worse.
Can anyone help me, to turn my life around so that good things start happening?
Cheers

Answer 1

Depends on whether you're retired or not.

Answer 2

I think this saying is part of those people's sense of humor, that is, it's not a fact but it's statement mentioned by anyone in his/her 40 something. Maybe it's a way of consolation or a way of starting conversation in the peer group. However, some achieve success since it has been a considerable time since graduation from university, work for 15+ years, therefore, some should be all right with his/her income, a house, a car, a family or an investment. I think you should gain confidence and learn from your successful friends and cope with it normally.

Answer 3

Near or at 40 in a large percentage of people many changes begin, all that's been before were things which were "preparing you". By then one should learn about, know fluently & understand most essential aspects of life. At 40-ish you're then able to fully enjoy it! Life is what one makes it but with fairly sound decisions prior, life really does begin around this age simply because you can appreciate it clearly.

Answer 4

Life begins the minute you wake up, conscious life.
don't turn around, you could scare yourself.
Make up your mind. good things are in there. Age is today. i have known that for decades.
Breathe deeply as you get up, wash your face with cold water, stretch before you begin the day; the rest will follow.
Whatever the number of years you have lived, it is the quality of the days you are spending that is important--not the particular events.
At first it may help to focus on inconsequential sounds, birds, voices, music. Then lights, sun, pictures, movement, ants, dogs, water, a plastic bag blowing in the wind across the street, ageless motion beside our being.

Answer 5

Oh darling, it "begins" alright: it begins to SUCK.

First of all, don't lose your job because you'll never be hired again (regardless of qualifications, talent and experience, no company wants a potential drain on their already crippling health insurance premiums).

Next, not only are we (often) still raising children of our own, we're suddenly responsible for our elderly and gradually failing parents.

Then there's the nearly inevitable "mid-life crisis," in which we encounter the suppressed feelings haunting half-hearted marriages, the futility of our lifelong "careers" at the hands of
employers responsible only to the bottom line and the crushing burden of years of escalating personal debt.

Around this point the "health issues" kick in. Next you walk into the restroom at a concert at Madison Square Garden and all the kids flush their joints in a panic. You start hating yourself for not starting an IRA when you were 14. Then a policeman half your age calls your "sir" or "ma'am" and you start to feel silly in jeans.

If you're not divorced yet, you will be soon, facilitating your slide into poverty from whatever financial heights you may have previously ascended to. If you're still single, at least as a woman, you have a better chance of being struck by lightening---twice---than ever being proposed to at this point.

You'll start being offered "discounts" by your car insurance company and being hit with increased rates from your health and life insurance providers. Fewer and fewer commercials, pop songs and fashion trends will make any sense to you and you'll never meet a bathroom you don't like. Ever.

But maybe, unlike myself, you're one of those "late bloomers." And speaking of bloomers, rare and wondrous is the 40+ woman who can wear a thong with any authority and men of the same age will favor boxers for the "extra room."

We don't want to be mutton done as lamb, do we?

Happy Birthday, ma'am.

Answer 6

Life begins at zero and steadily rises upwards until you fall permanently.

If life begins at 40, that seems like a waste fo 40 years.

Answer 7

I am 56 years old and life is great. At 40 I had a lot of tough times.
Hang in there

Answer 8

think positive and good will happen to you.
think negative once and 10 bad things will happen to you.

read some good books
try your hand at white magick, It has been known, on occassion, to be more powerful than your average prayer.

Answer 9

for u, life begins at 40, for real

i just knew :-)

Answer 10

First you have to BELIEVE good things are going to happen to you.