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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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 Posted: Fri May 01, 2009 6:06 am Post subject: it's my 40th birthday today |
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also...
this is my 2221st day in Korea and 8019th Dave's post
i have no idea how to feel |
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Sleepy in Seoul
Joined: 15 May 2004
Location: Going in ever decreasing circles until I eventually disappear up my own fundament - in NZ
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| Posted: Fri May 01, 2009 6:20 am Post subject: |
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| Congratulations - on all three counts. Which one of them makes you feel the oldest? |
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gangwonbound
Joined: 27 Apr 2009
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| Posted: Fri May 01, 2009 6:22 am Post subject: |
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| depressed??? |
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tzechuk
Joined: 20 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Fri May 01, 2009 6:31 am Post subject: |
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| Wow! Happy Birthday! |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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| Posted: Fri May 01, 2009 6:41 am Post subject: |
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| Sleepy in Seoul wrote: |
| Which one of them makes you feel the oldest? |
hmmm... the 2221 days in Korea I'd say, given the newbies I know around here, many of course who are younger, but even the fortysomething newbies gush about things like children do, surprised and shocked by the same old, same old - making me feel like i've been around forever
i actually have nothing against getting older. i'm just wondering what the hell happened to my thirties? that decade just whizzed by compared to my previous two.
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| depressed??? |
 absolutely not! i remember when i was young thinking how silly it was people worried about getting old. it's natural. it's inevitable and it's downright pathetic to see people try to somehow avoid it, hide it, fear it
i always thought of myself as a 45 year old trapped in a youngum's body. i'm just heading to when i belong 
but to get to 40 without a wife and kids means that if it's gonna be in my life then i'm gonna be a 60+ year old dad at my kid's graduation - like a grandparent
my best bud from grade school had three kids by the time he was 25 and is nowadays expecting grandkids and an empty nest; another friend is retiring! (from the military after 20 years of service)
just strange |
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blurgalurgalurga
Joined: 18 Oct 2007
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| Posted: Fri May 01, 2009 7:09 am Post subject: |
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Fret not. 40 is the new 32.
And as for being old at your kids' grad ceremonies...true, true, but still, by then, 60 will be the new 42.
Happy Birthday man |
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D.D.
Joined: 29 May 2008
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| Posted: Fri May 01, 2009 7:15 am Post subject: |
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I just turned 41 and feel old now. A year apart and from the same province maybe we played some hockey against each other. We use to play tournies on the island sometimes.
I find the 40's to be perplexing and not sure what they will be like. |
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Joe666
Joined: 19 Nov 2008
Location: Jesus it's hot down here!
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| Posted: Fri May 01, 2009 9:21 am Post subject: |
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VanIslander:
i actually have nothing against getting older. i'm just wondering what the hell happened to my thirties? that decade just whizzed by compared to my previous two.
I'm right behind you. Who cares about someone our age not being married and having kids. This is the year 2009. The 50's and 60's are over! Did you ever stop to wonder why you never got married or had kids in the first place? I know you had opportunities. It could be worse. You could be divorced, paying child support and or alimony. I know plenty of those cases from people who were married in their early 20's. As far as I'm concerned, we are ahead of our time in that category. I feel as time goes by, marriage will become less and less common. Take a good look at what's going on in the developed world in regard to the male-female relationships. Things are changing way too fast.
Van - You are absolutely 100% correct. It flies by. I was told it gets faster and faster. Wonderfull, ey!!
D.D.:
I find the 40's to be perplexing and not sure what they will be like.
I was wondering this myself? I have a little time left before I truely find out. Shit! |
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jajdude
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Fri May 01, 2009 10:07 am Post subject: |
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| Way to go van. I'll catch you yet though, you old bastard. |
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Kuros
Joined: 27 Apr 2004
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| Posted: Fri May 01, 2009 11:09 am Post subject: Re: it's my 40th birthday today |
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| VanIslander wrote: |
this is my 2221st day in Korea and 8019th Dave's post
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Its true that 40 is inevitable but 6 years in Korea is hardly so. |
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PeteJB
Joined: 06 Jul 2007
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| Posted: Fri May 01, 2009 11:29 am Post subject: |
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| 축하해 형님! |
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tomato
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
Location: I get so little foreign language experience, I must be in Koreatown, Los Angeles.
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| Posted: Fri May 01, 2009 2:40 pm Post subject: |
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I'm twenty years older than you.
Happy birthday, Sonny Boy! |
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i_teach_esl
Joined: 07 Sep 2006
Location: baebang, asan/cheonan
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| Posted: Fri May 01, 2009 4:26 pm Post subject: |
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| <--- 33 and excited for my 40's! |
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agoodmouse
Joined: 20 Dec 2007
Location: Anyang
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| Posted: Fri May 01, 2009 4:30 pm Post subject: |
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Congratulations on your life!  |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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| Posted: Fri May 01, 2009 5:22 pm Post subject: |
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| jajdude wrote: |
| Way to go van. I'll catch you yet though, you old bastard. |
the nicest thing anybody drunk on Chinese rice has ever said to me, thanks man |
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