this post was submitted on 30 Jul 2023
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[–] [email protected] 78 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm 38 and can only agree that's how I expect life at 40 to be

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

43 here. Hills are tough.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Exactly, I'm 38 also, and this is already like 90% true. Just need a good walking stick.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I know I will soon die

We should all remind ourselves that fact

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Speak for yourself. I intend to live forever.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Terenas: What is this? What are you doing, my son?

Arthas: Succeeding you, Father...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"Thanks to denial, I'm immortal!"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Pretty sure thats literally the premise behind the immortal man in The Sandman.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Memento mori

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I am forty. My biggest fear is surviving another 40 years. I hope I can die soon.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (2 children)

And not 1 mentioned depression and debt.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Or "sleep" turning from a refreshing undertaking into "wake up more exhausted than before bit now your back hurts"

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And you have to go back to work

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Sounds more like OP has to go work on the back. Haha!!

Yeah, bad puns are also something terrible that happens when turning 40.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'll be 36 next month. I let myself slept in this morning until I woke up. I have a crick in my neck and the left side of my lumbar spine is a dull mass of burning discomfort. I'd rather sleep 6.5 hours every night than wake up feeling like this every day.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

They did. They just spoke metaphorically.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago

I know I will die soon

This cracked me up way more than it should have

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That does sound like how I felt at 40.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I started finding gray hairs around then

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Ya'll need to put the bong down and get up out of your gaming chairs every so often and move more. I'm 41 and I don't feel like this.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are you talking to the 8 & 9 year-olds?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

They shouldn't be doing drugs either.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Y'all need to fidget spin into a gym, don't smoke a drug and yolo the bible, cuz

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Lolz! Kids are stupid... those are things that happen when you're 50

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

As someone who got fibromyalgia in their 20s, that's what life is like.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Man those kids were spot on. Eerily accurate.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

They were off base, but not by enough.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I am 40 and ready to die.

So its half accurate.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Well the gray hair is partly true, at least.

Sincerely, graying 40yo