re: OTers over 40 - how did your attitude change after 40?

My attitude really didn't change about things much until after I turned 60.

At 40 I was starting a new family, second wife who gave me my first Son, he kept me young. He'll be graduating from college at the end of this year.

Grandbabies changed things for me. All of my daughters are in their mid to late 30s .... grandbabies change things, not age.

ETA: I still feel 25 in my head but my body is constantly reminding me I am waaaaay past 25. I was still running marathons and participating in triathlons at 40. Married a woman ten years younger than me. But your attitude doesn't really change, you just become wiser with age, more experienced, perhaps more understanding of things.

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I agree and by the time I got to 50 I noticed being a little more tired from getting up once or twice a night to pee.

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That started for me around 60 and it's a bitch.

Started for my Dad in his 60s too. He's 90 now and wears a diaper to bed and doesn't mind admitting it although he told me today he's going to the doctor next Monday and they're going to try some kind of pills on him. He had his prostrate removed at 82 .... prostrate cancer runs in the family.

Getting old is not for pussies.

I walk every day in the neighborhood. Scream at every driver to “SLOW DOWN”! Yeah, I’m THAT guy.

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I walk every day in the neighborhood. Scream at every driver to “SLOW DOWN”! Yeah, I’m THAT guy.

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Ditto, especially when playing with my kids in the yard.

The first time I made the SLOW DOWN motion and uttered the phrase "dumbass high school kids" was when I had the self-awareness to go "welp, I'm officially old now."