40 Years of Life - Here I Learned 40 Lessons

It's not easy to be 40. Our family, our secular work, our daily life requires constant energy day after day.

We are vigorous but tired, tested by life, with mistakes full of knowledge and lessons that have made us sharper and wiser.

Here are 40 things I've learned over my 40 years:

1. Rolls show up anyway.
2. Exercise is fundamental, but much more about health than about external aesthetics.
3. It finds that sunscreen is a more essential element than a mascara for eyelashes.
4. Love of plants and animals is infinite.
5. The books are our best friends.
6. Drinking a glass of wine with your husband is more important than always a clean house.
7. We begin to desire grandchildren as the children grew up and spread their wings.
8. No good horoscope exceeds a book on his hands.
9. Giving our time for a greater purpose fills us with more joy than buying a new pair of shoes.
10. We judge less, but we understand more.
11. We talk less, but we hear more.
12. We prefer to spend time in a hooking course instead of a new course of a foreign language.
13. Outside exits are replaced by meetings with good friends in the living room.
14. My spine and knees exist, and they are 40 years old. Sometimes they keep you up to 80. Take care of them!
15. Long, beautiful hair leaves room for practical, short hair.
16. We no longer hold on to the cliche.
17. The simplicity becomes a luxury object.
18. A brief break after lunch is refreshing.
19. We no longer care about the opinions of others.
20. Our happiness is our highest goal.
21. Our preferences and tastes vary greatly, but they are still good!
22. Money no longer has the same value for us.
23. A friend's call for an outside drink will often be changed by an invitation to coffee at home.
24. Tea exists! It is more delicious than other processed beverages and is available with different tastes.
25. “in my days” becomes a often used expression.
26. Dogs partly compensate for the absence of our children.
27. Education of emotional and spiritual intelligence becomes more important than having a dream machine.
28. Walking in the wild and listening to birds has a soothing effect you never thought of.
29. A military man will always remain a soldier! From childhood even to adolescence and maturity. That doesn't change!
30. Leaving the house with something tossing shoulders and an umbrella becomes a routine.
31. When you reach this stage of life, your mate's care is more valuable than all the honey of love.
32. Disconnection is a known fact. Nothing is ours, everything is short.
33. Jealousy? We do not have time for jealousy, but we do not want to share it with other women anyway.
34. Commitment, loyalty, and cooperation are far more valuable values in a marriage than a beautiful face and an unprecedented body.
35. Intensity is replaced by <x0 mneumatic”.
36. We take the habit of preparing for everything.
37. Laughing at myself is our best fun.
38. We've learned to celebrate every little victory.
39. We are increasingly concerned about family members and relatives, even without cause.
40. We make peace with ourselves, with our past and with our fears.