"This is '40.' Good night."

I’m reflective, struggling a bit with 40. There is too much death of youthfulness for people my age.

I have connected so much with U2’s most recent album, How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb. It has Bono making numerous references to how he is combating the death of youthfulness, and refusing to let age dictate him:

“Time won’t leave me as I am
But time won’t take the boy out of this man”
(“City of Blinding Lights”)

And

“As you enter this life
I pray you depart
With a wrinkled face
And a brand new heart”
(“Love and Peace”)

And

“I’m alive
I’m being born
I just arrived, I’m at the door
Of the place I started out from
And I want back inside”
(“All Because of You”)

The body might not be able to do what it used to, but there’s still some kick left.

And my soul is only as old as I choose. The way I choose to approach life. Like I said, I gotta jump in the river!

I’m halfway there…