I think I am going to have to save my money and invest in a laptop. I constantly have thoughts running through my brain and it just never seems to work out that I have a place to write them down or put thought to keyboard when I want to. So, that is thought number one on day number one of my new year!

A couple of years ago, before I was about to turn forty I was having a conversation with the sister of an old friend of mine. She was telling me that things change in your forties. She really didn’t elaborate but basically said it is different for different people. That you start to figure things out for yourself, come into your own and really become “yourself”. Of course I wasn’t there yet, so I really didn’t get it. I am now “in my forties” and starting to really get it.

Late last year the Judd Apatow movie “This is 40” came out. I saw it after several of my friends and actually went to the movie alone. Which is probably something that someone does in their 40’s that maybe they wouldn’t have done when then were younger. I laughed out loud, because I could relate. When I commented on facebook that I enjoyed the movie, one of my friends commented something like “really, I heard it wasn’t that good”. Maybe it’s a “40” thing (this person wasn’t quite there yet).

Several people I know are turning 40 this year. There has been a lot of chatter about this number and I remember how I was feeling before I had turned “that number”. Everyone says, it is just a number, and maybe I would agree with that, but as I am moving through the last couple of years I am thinking that maybe there is more to that.

As I said, I have a lot of different thoughts in my head right now, and rather than try to summarize them in one post – perhaps I will explore the possibilities of forty thoughts on 40.

I will leave you with this one thought this morning – the word Journey.

The first definition that came up for the word Journey was this:

• an act of travelling from one place to another

Which of course is the definition of Journey but not in the context that I am using the word. I went on further to the Oxford dictionary and it says the same thing, but below that it also says: 

•  a long and often difficult process of personal change and development

That makes more sense to me….
 
Stay tuned on my continued forty thoughts on 40.