Contrary to belief

you don't die when you turn the age of 40, you don't automatically lose hair, get wrinkles, sag all over, qualify for Social Security or anything else. Although according to the "kid" in my Sociology class this week we are old when he was describing how he was offering to help this "old" lady pump gas one day. When asked how old (many of us picturing a woman in her 60s/70s) he said her 30s/40s. Let's just say heads were shaken, a few boos and even the Professors rolled her eyes because she is in her 30s. If teenagers think the 30s/40s are old age what do they think people twice that age are dead?

The age of Aquarius, Woodstock, man landing on the moon, JFK, Martin Luther King Jr, Twiggy, and don't forget Sesame Street started and it keeps on going all things that happened in the 60s, 40 years ago. You can look at women in their 40s right now - Halle Berry (1966); Julia Roberts (1967); Nicole Kidman (1967); Courtenay Cox (1964); and Sarah Jessica Parker (1965). Many of these ladies we watched in movies so they were growing up as we did and how we wanted to be in their shoes sometimes. They went from young beautiful young ladies to knockout women who still have it all. Then there is the guys, who would think that the geek/young Randy from Loverboy would turn into McDreamy on Grey's Anatomy (Patrick Dempsy who is in his 40s). Then there is Johnny Depp bad boy from 21 Jump Street to bad boy Pirate; George Clooney young teenager in Facts of Life to major movies; babyface Chris O'Donnell; and the list keeps on going. I honestly think that these men look better in their 40s than they did in their 20s.

Is that not then more proof that life really can begin in the 40s? So you have to look at your age like you would a glass of water. Is the glass half-empty or half-filled?? In my mind it is half-filled because when you look at it at 40 you still haven't lived half your life yet so you still have time to do those things you did dream of but haven't had time to do. Madonna definitely proved that when she performed last weekend at the Super Bowl, singing and dancing all over the stage and she is 53! If she can do that, then I can do anything! So I am definitely going to start living a lot more now that I have gone over the age of 40!