Those 40-plussers
Was reading about Wikipedia founder, Jimmy Wales, and the upcoming beta version of Wikia Search, which aims to develop a search engine, crawlers and other indexing tools through a collaborative, open-source process.
Cool, I thought. And Jimmy is just 41. Wow, I wonder how those famous 40-plussers feel.
And then it hit me: I'm turning 35, I'm in the league with 'those' 40-plussers. I'm not famous though, and I'm not a lot of things which 40-plussers are (or most of them). Got a husband - ;-) - but no kids. Don't know if that's what I want for me. Don't have a senior position at work - never really focused on the corporate world so now I get paid like someone in their 20s even if my experience is vastly greater. I don't look 40 - great ;-p - but I am starting to feel 'older' sometimes with gray hair and wrinkles announcing themselves in the bright glare of the mirror lights early in the morning. But honestly, I keep thinking of myself as 19 (sometimes 23) that I forget that in a few years, I'll be too old to bear a child (ok, I meant naturally) if it turned out that I want one. That my counterparts are all holding major positions in the company while I'm still testing if I enjoy this or that. I forget that I've reached that age where I've categorised aunts and uncles and politicans.
I'll be one of those 40-plussers very shortly. Deep. ;-p
Can't see very clearly how that will be, but one thing's for sure -- I'll still be a Pucca-loving, Picachu-sneezing, wanna be-cook, suffering poet, game junkie and dream-dweller at 40. And my garden will still be the messiest one in our typical Dutch neighbourhood.
Now more than ever, I must find Middle Earth!
Onwards to infinity and beyond! ;-)
Cool, I thought. And Jimmy is just 41. Wow, I wonder how those famous 40-plussers feel.
And then it hit me: I'm turning 35, I'm in the league with 'those' 40-plussers. I'm not famous though, and I'm not a lot of things which 40-plussers are (or most of them). Got a husband - ;-) - but no kids. Don't know if that's what I want for me. Don't have a senior position at work - never really focused on the corporate world so now I get paid like someone in their 20s even if my experience is vastly greater. I don't look 40 - great ;-p - but I am starting to feel 'older' sometimes with gray hair and wrinkles announcing themselves in the bright glare of the mirror lights early in the morning. But honestly, I keep thinking of myself as 19 (sometimes 23) that I forget that in a few years, I'll be too old to bear a child (ok, I meant naturally) if it turned out that I want one. That my counterparts are all holding major positions in the company while I'm still testing if I enjoy this or that. I forget that I've reached that age where I've categorised aunts and uncles and politicans.
I'll be one of those 40-plussers very shortly. Deep. ;-p
Can't see very clearly how that will be, but one thing's for sure -- I'll still be a Pucca-loving, Picachu-sneezing, wanna be-cook, suffering poet, game junkie and dream-dweller at 40. And my garden will still be the messiest one in our typical Dutch neighbourhood.
Now more than ever, I must find Middle Earth!
Onwards to infinity and beyond! ;-)
Labels: 40, middle age, wiki
posted by delunna | 8:44 AM
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