Half a century here, I've never had a time in my life where the next year was better than the last
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If the cure to existential dread is turning 40, it can't come soon enough.
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Look at the bright side: every day is the best day of the rest of our lives!
Translation: every day will be worse than the last until death. I agree.
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I wouldn’t be gentle. But then again both my parents are dead so I don’t actually have anyone to be bitter at.
Expectation is the main ingredient to disappointment. All you have to do is lower your expectations to where the bar is, so when good things do happen, it'll feel better when they do.
Am 39 and feel this