To want to cry at about all the years that have flown by?

[Chairmancow]

Watching Brit pop on BBC, just got a rush of nostalgia that nearly floored me. All those years gone in a flash. I’m nearly 40.
Can’t help wishing i’d made the most of it! They say youth is wasted on the young. All the things I didn’t do that I should have done. All very depressing. And I’ve not even had wine tonight!!

hmm I think I have the opposite, I just feel done - I'm knackered and I don't want to see any more of the world or life or anything really.

Better stick around till my DD grows up though!

(possibly not feeling as cheery as average due to the fact I've just got off a transatlantic flight and its shit-o-clock in the morning.)

40 is young!

Not sure how it happened but I'll be 47 soon, my 40's have flown by the fastest and been the most challenging, trying to come to terms with a whole bunch of stuff I didn't get before... perhaps I am getting wiser with age, just need to perfect that "don't give a fuck" attitude without letting the aftermath bother me.

Looking back now I'm the age I am, I would have liked to have had my dc a few years earlier and got on the family home property ladder a bit sooner. I was 35/37 when I had my DC, I was considered older mother back then but know it's the norm now.

Oh I can pin point 43 as the turning point when I really saw the signs of ageing 😩 when I was 40 I looked great, naively thought that would be it for the decade but so short lived! Wish I was more proactive with my skin care earlier on.

Keep telling myself this is this youngest I'll be so just got to get on with it!

I am 50 and don't have any regrets about my past . I feel I have had a full life so far. Nothing was planned but I put it down to becoming a parent early in life so growing up quickly. I feel I have done so much with my life. I had fun in my teenage years, had my children early twenties, went to uni and got myself a career, decided to have more children, have become a gran! I hadn't travelled a lot up until recently but have done that now so what next? who knows!!!

I am 74 , my ‘baby’ is 43. My oldest grandchild is 20. 40 wasn’t great for me and I wouldn’t go back there, 30 was pretty tough too. For me 45 to 60 was the best time but my 70s are so far so good. Enjoy the ‘now’ and look forward to ‘the next thing’ whatever it may be.

I'm 44 and i wish I'd played the field, slept around more and taken more risks.
But my aspergers wouldn't have got onto that. 🙄i don't want to sleep around now but i should've had a girlie holiday.....if I'd had any mates.
I miss my youth i felt safe n sheltered at my mums.
Ive got house job partner child but often feel nostalgic if i hear music from my youth. It's like a punch to my stomach.

There’s lots of wisdom and lots of positives on this thread, and I’ve particularly enjoyed the thoughts of older posters

There’s so much life to live.

I’ve started a 40 by from 40 list

I opened this thread thinking the OP must be at least 60. 40?! Get out and do all the things you think you want to.

I'm almost 55 and still get a shock when I look in the mirror because inside I'm still in my 20s (which would be difficult with a DD of 32!).

Don't waste another minute on regrets and "what if"s and "if only"s! Nostalgia is great if it makes you feel warm and happy, but it's not good to pine for the "lost" years. They're not lost, they're just in the past - and we can't do anything to change that!

Look at today and what you can do now! If you're 40 now, remember that in 10 years' time you will be looking back and realising that, actually, 40 is not old at all. So don't waste time wishing you were younger; embrace who you are now and all that you have experienced and learned so far. There is much to celebrate about being 40!

I am 60, btw.

Felt very nostalgic reading this! I'm 40 this year too.