Talking Point: Landmark Birthdays

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elderly pedestrian road sign.
The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.


- Helen Hayes
And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the

life in your years.

- Abraham Lincoln

A friend of a friend of erm, a friend is approaching a landmark birthday soon: the

big XXXX-oh. But why is it such a 'landmark'? Because it's divisble by ten? A

bit arbitrary, isn't it? But strangely birthdays have this effect on us, be it your

21st or your 70th. We take stock, we look back, get philosphical. And then we

probably just carry on as normal. Or do we? Can we actually change as the result of

hitting a landmark birthday?

Whether it was your 18th, your 21st, 30th, 40th, 50th, 60th etc, let us know how

you felt. Did reaching a certain age have a profound effect on you?

  • Did reaching a certain age have a profound effect on you? Did you change? Did

    you suddenly start wearing cardigans? Or get a full leather biker's suit and a

    Harley Davidson?

  • Are you approaching a 'landmark' birthday? Are you approaching it with dread?

    Excitement? Complete indifference?!

  • What was your most memorable birthday bash? Any nice memories you'd like to

    share?

  • As we generally live longer, the phrase 'life begins at...' seems to apply to

    increasingly older ages. Is there such a thing as the 'best' age?

  • Do you have any general thoughts on ageing, any advice or general wistful reflections? (We love a bit of wistful reflection.) Do we get wiser, happier, more

    content as our desires generally become more reined in? Or is it all a bit of a struggle, a bit Samuel Beckett: 'I can't go on. I'll go on'.


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