1. I'm not 40, I'm eighteen with 22 years experience.

2. I'm forty and therefore...have very low possibility of being kidnapped. Right?

3. I can wear sweats and no makeup and not care.

4. I'm a big girl now (and when I say "big girl", I'm at my heaviest)!

5. The decade of my teen years is now considered "retro" and "cool".

6. My body is now better at predicting the weather than any meteorologist.

7. I don't have to worry about revealing any of my friends' secrets... because I've forgotten all of them.

8. I can slow down and take things at my own pace (if I want to).

9. It's easier to laugh at myself (and others).

10. The word "fart" still makes me giggle.

11. I feel younger than ever...because I've connected with so many "old"  friends in this here age of social media.

12. I don't have to worry about meeting "the right kind of people" or
making "the right kind of friends." I'm already surrounded by them.

13. I understand, love, respect and appreciate my parents more as each year passes.

14. I married the perfect man for me (thank God I didn't marry what's-his-name or what's-his-name).

15. Forty isn't old... if you're a tree.

16. People have to listen to me now.

17. I have a reason to forget things. I have a reason to forget things and repeat myself.

18. I have a reason to forget things. I have a reason to forget things and repeat myself.

19. I'm like the cat lady, but married and with dogs and I like it.

20. I've seen, done, and experienced many things the youn'ins have
not. (Wait! Can I call them youn'ins or do i have to wait till I'm 50?)

21. I don't have to pretend to like something if I don't.

22. It's easier to let things go. (Wish I would have learned that one earlier)!

23. No one cares if you are a bad singer.

24. Those aren't gray hairs. That's experience.

25. Nap times are needed, so are my 4 prescriptions.

26. I don't feel the need to try to prove myself. I've spent the last
twenty years doing that. It's time to relax a little and enjoy what
I've accomplished.

27. If I want to eat ice cream for dinner... I can.

28. If I want to eat ice cream for breakfast...I can.

29. People expect me to be a bad dancer.

30. I can get away with cutting through the small talk to get to the
point. I'm getting older by the minute here! People...I don't have all
day!

31. I am more certain that I know less than I think I do.

32. Forty is the new twenty-five.

33. I know who I am and what I want out of life, and I'm not afraid
to pursue it with passion, no matter what anyone else might think.

34. 100 is now old...and all my childhood heroes are bald, and Val Kilmer will never look as good as he did in Top Gun.

35. I don't always worry about if people are watching and judging me all the time.

36. I'm no longer considered crazy, just eccentric!

37. My desire to live an adventure has only increased!

38. Failure isn't terminal.

 

40. The Good Lord has just begun His work in and thru me.