I am 40 today. It feels very odd because I don’t feel 40 and when I consider the way in which I view people who are 40 I don’t fit the model at all.
It seems only a year or two ago I was 21 
Eddy
Happy birthday. I’m also going to be 40 this year but have been 24 since I was… well, 24.
…[size=150]Happy Birthday Eddy,[/size]
Ill be 66 this year, but my wife is constantly reminding me how young, cute and loveable I am...I think, well she must be, mustnt she? :confused: Shes always telling me Im childlike, or...childish, something like that, I forget which, exactly. Ill check that out when she comes in.
Have a great day young fellah! 
Vic
Happy birthday, Eddy! My mom has always said that, despite her age, she doesn’t feel a day over 21, and I always pitied her, determined that as I got older I would feel my age, having gained much wisdom over the years. Now, about to turn 37 next month (at least you guys are making me feel young ), I have to grudgingly concede that I understand what she meant - I’m no more sensible, mature or capable of dealing with daily life than I was when I was 24 - I just know some more random stuff and happen to have my own car with child seats in the back.
Have a great day!
All the best,
Keith
Nice one Kev 
Vic
Hey, enough of the Kev - at least it doesn’t have a big sticker across the windshield with “Keith and Julia” or whatever. (My brother, the real Kevin, did once go out with a girl called Tracey - if only they had stuck together and had a windshield sticker.)
Happy birthday! :mrgreen:
As in conception and birth?!
Fluff
When`s your big day Pumpkin Pip? 
Happy Birthday, Eddy! Please know it just keeps getting better with age. Life, I mean, not just wine. I loved my 40s, and am loving my 50s even more. Don’t worry about a number in your head. Just enjoy it as you worry less about what other people think and really start to know a thing or two about who you are and what life is all about. Not that you ever totally know either, just that you know you don’t know and are a lot more comfortable with that!
Congratulations on making it this far!!
My 40th birthday? May 8th, 2027.
hears the 
from folk who realize that’s why Pumpkin Pip can be bewildered by the most obvious cultural references
:mrgreen:
See, Eddy? There are benefits to being your age.
These days I actually “feel” older than I am. Not just physically. I look at my “peers” and seem to be more comfortable with the previous generations. Then things that folks my age find important strike me as … juvenile. Maybe it is the fairly limited sphere of acquaintances, maybe I am just “old fashioned”. Either way I don’t recall it always being like this. Hopefully it is just the winter doldrums.
Happy Birthday! Just recently I’ve had the same surreal feeling when I realized that I had left university 10 years ago. These ten years simply made WOOSH. Okay - I got a few children, published a few books, bought a house. It’s not like nothing happened. But when I meet a group of students I have to remind myself that I don’t belong anymore …
I’m 62 and still don’t know what I want to do when I grow up. 
Ike
Thanks for the nice words
I had a very relaxed day, didn’t drink too much … although this is likely to change at the weekend when the ‘festivities proper’ kick off and a load of friends descend upon my humble abode!
Eddy
I shall quote myself
So since yer still breathing and ya have yer wits about ya remember its never to late to have a happy childhood. Yaaaarrrrghhhh