UB40 Or Ace Of Base?
Oh brother, is it really that time already? We all struggle with our age at some point in our lives. There’s just that simple inevitability that we get older. There’s nothing you or I can do about it. Sure, you can get a face lift if it makes you feel better, or start dating a younger woman in a desperate attempt to re-visit your youth. However, none of these things will really ever make you younger than you are. My advice is to embrace it, deal with it in a positive fashion and move on. So, is it time for those 40th birthday invitations or what? Be proud of the years you’ve accumulated thus far. You’re clearly doing something right.
The mere thought of 40th birthday invitations make some individuals all huffy or depressed. Granted, it can be a bit hard to grasp the years that have gone by. As you and I both know, they always seem to go faster as another one passes. This is bizarre and a little eerie. I first noticed it after turning 21. Suddenly the years just started flying by. What is the deal here! I want my life to slow down a tad. It’s like Ferris Buhler said; “Life can move pretty fast. If you don’t stop to look around once in a while, you could miss it.” This is very true and brilliant advice for us all. Now that we’ve cleared up the rapid pace of life, it’s back to the mid-life 40th birthday invitations. This is the mid-life point, right? At least that’s what I always hear. I prefer to think of my mid-life point as 85. I just always assumed I’d be around for a good 170 years or so. But I could be mistaken. Anyway, I was recently at a 40th birthday party. Once the 40th birthday invitation arrived in my mailbox, I couldn’t pass it up. I was instructed to bring a gag gift, since it was a surprise party. Obviously I picked out one of those cheesy “old fart” mugs that you’d find in a novelty store. However, I quickly noticed that the birthday girl looked more depressed at the sight of all these gag gifts than she did happy. Maybe the theme was a bad idea.
Isn’t there a way to send out 40th birthday invitations without getting down in the dumps? This is ridiculous, folks. If you want to get down about a birthday, make it your 85th one. Forget the 40th birthday invitations! Forty is the new 20 if you haven’t heard. Cheer up! We’re hardly invalids at this tender age.