Being 40
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Hi all. Now that I've been 40 years old for several months, I'm beginning to be haunted by comments friends of mine made when I was 39... each telling me what would be the first thing to go. The ones that were younger than 40 were just giving me a hard time of course, but I paid attention to the ones who were over 40. The one comment that seemed to come back again and again was "the eyes" - "the muscles in your eyes will start to go shortly after you turn 40" was a prediction made by a friend about me. I'm beginning to think she was right! My eyes lately are starting to give me problems, and in some weird ways. I think I need a trip to the eye doctor and maybe a set of glasses. For the 40+'ers out there, what was the "first thing to go" for you? I still feel like a little kid in many ways (the good kinds :-) ) but I think my eyes are feeling their age.
Being 60 is REALLY bad ... the eyes, etc, have already gone. Now my mind is going as well :sigh:
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Hi all. Now that I've been 40 years old for several months, I'm beginning to be haunted by comments friends of mine made when I was 39... each telling me what would be the first thing to go. The ones that were younger than 40 were just giving me a hard time of course, but I paid attention to the ones who were over 40. The one comment that seemed to come back again and again was "the eyes" - "the muscles in your eyes will start to go shortly after you turn 40" was a prediction made by a friend about me. I'm beginning to think she was right! My eyes lately are starting to give me problems, and in some weird ways. I think I need a trip to the eye doctor and maybe a set of glasses. For the 40+'ers out there, what was the "first thing to go" for you? I still feel like a little kid in many ways (the good kinds :-) ) but I think my eyes are feeling their age.
I think my memory was the first to go, but I can't remember. ;P /ravi
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What problem do you have with your eyes? I'm guessing that it's seeing things at a distance. People who don't get that by the time they turn 40 generally have problems seeing things up close, as the OP referred to.
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I think my memory was the first to go, but I can't remember. ;P /ravi
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Ravi Bhavnani wrote:
I think my memory was the first to go, but I can't remember
WHAT!?!?! What'd you say?!?! You think you have a lawn to mow, in the month of September?!?! Why the heck would I care about that?!!?
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Hi all. Now that I've been 40 years old for several months, I'm beginning to be haunted by comments friends of mine made when I was 39... each telling me what would be the first thing to go. The ones that were younger than 40 were just giving me a hard time of course, but I paid attention to the ones who were over 40. The one comment that seemed to come back again and again was "the eyes" - "the muscles in your eyes will start to go shortly after you turn 40" was a prediction made by a friend about me. I'm beginning to think she was right! My eyes lately are starting to give me problems, and in some weird ways. I think I need a trip to the eye doctor and maybe a set of glasses. For the 40+'ers out there, what was the "first thing to go" for you? I still feel like a little kid in many ways (the good kinds :-) ) but I think my eyes are feeling their age.
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If your eyes are going, get your ears pierced! Sailors believed this, and there is some evidence that it is the case although it is counter-intuitive. It is thought to be akin to acupuncture.
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Dalek Dave wrote:
If your eyes are going, get your ears pierced!
Absolutely! Then you will have somewhere to attach those chord thingies that stop you losing your specs. :)
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I think my memory was the first to go, but I can't remember. ;P /ravi
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For me it too was the eyes. I noticed one day that everything I reading I was holding at arms length (a couple of months after I turned 40). So off I went to the eye doctor where the first question that was asked was are you 40 yet? :((
Its called you stare at a computer too much
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Oh, huh, I have my left ear pierced (twice), but not the right. I've worn (rather strong) glasses since I was ten.
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Hi all. Now that I've been 40 years old for several months, I'm beginning to be haunted by comments friends of mine made when I was 39... each telling me what would be the first thing to go. The ones that were younger than 40 were just giving me a hard time of course, but I paid attention to the ones who were over 40. The one comment that seemed to come back again and again was "the eyes" - "the muscles in your eyes will start to go shortly after you turn 40" was a prediction made by a friend about me. I'm beginning to think she was right! My eyes lately are starting to give me problems, and in some weird ways. I think I need a trip to the eye doctor and maybe a set of glasses. For the 40+'ers out there, what was the "first thing to go" for you? I still feel like a little kid in many ways (the good kinds :-) ) but I think my eyes are feeling their age.
Mike Ellison wrote:
For the 40+'ers out there, what was the "first thing to go"
Hi Mike, Age 40 was when I "jumped ship" from being on track for a Ph.D. in the social sciences to playing with computers : the first thing that went was the wife. best, Bill
"Many : not conversant with mathematical studies, imagine that because it [the Analytical Engine] is to give results in numerical notation, its processes must consequently be arithmetical, numerical, rather than algebraical and analytical. This is an error. The engine can arrange and combine numerical quantities as if they were letters or any other general symbols; and it fact it might bring out its results in algebraical notation, were provisions made accordingly." Ada, Countess Lovelace, 1844
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Hi all. Now that I've been 40 years old for several months, I'm beginning to be haunted by comments friends of mine made when I was 39... each telling me what would be the first thing to go. The ones that were younger than 40 were just giving me a hard time of course, but I paid attention to the ones who were over 40. The one comment that seemed to come back again and again was "the eyes" - "the muscles in your eyes will start to go shortly after you turn 40" was a prediction made by a friend about me. I'm beginning to think she was right! My eyes lately are starting to give me problems, and in some weird ways. I think I need a trip to the eye doctor and maybe a set of glasses. For the 40+'ers out there, what was the "first thing to go" for you? I still feel like a little kid in many ways (the good kinds :-) ) but I think my eyes are feeling their age.
Mike Ellison wrote:
what was the "first thing to go" for you?
I don't remember. :sigh:
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
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Hi all. Now that I've been 40 years old for several months, I'm beginning to be haunted by comments friends of mine made when I was 39... each telling me what would be the first thing to go. The ones that were younger than 40 were just giving me a hard time of course, but I paid attention to the ones who were over 40. The one comment that seemed to come back again and again was "the eyes" - "the muscles in your eyes will start to go shortly after you turn 40" was a prediction made by a friend about me. I'm beginning to think she was right! My eyes lately are starting to give me problems, and in some weird ways. I think I need a trip to the eye doctor and maybe a set of glasses. For the 40+'ers out there, what was the "first thing to go" for you? I still feel like a little kid in many ways (the good kinds :-) ) but I think my eyes are feeling their age.