Life Begins at 40
I’ve heard the phrase ‘life begins at 40′ each time a friend turns 40 years old, I don’t know if it’s just a lame excuse for being old, now that I turned 40, I wonder if there’s any truth in that.
Yes, today is my birthday and I’m officially forty years old, a year older, a year wiser (yeah I hope so).
I was talking to my wife earlier, she asked me about my birthday wish, I told her that I never thought of that yet. I don’t really remember any wishes that has been granted, what I see were things that were given to me instead of my wishes that made me a better person, those things that I really needed and not those things that I wanted. These are things that made me thankful for the past 40 years of my life.
I’m just too grateful of reaching this stature of my life, I’m thankful for having a loving family, a wife that (is still trying to) understands me, the friends who never forgot my birthday (yeah right, thanks to FB’s event reminder) and God for extending my life for another year.
I ain’t wishing for anything else but a longer life to spend with the family that I am trying to build now. I know God would be kind enough to grant me that wish. Here’s to another 40 years! Happy Birthday to me…
Have a happy birthday and a happy Christmas! Forty is young – you have a lot of mileage to go.