Great thread, so many words of wisdom.

Okay, I'll admit it - I wasn't looking forward to turning 40 - it brought home to me that multiple areas of my life were not as I wanted them & I felt like I should have all this sorted by this age. It wasn't getting older which was upsetting me, it was getting older and not being/doing what I thought I should be by that age.

I think the technical term is 'mid life crisis'.

It's been a time for reflection & reassessment, altering things/myself - growth & all that is good. I was beating myself up for "not knowing now what I knew back then", but I've come to believe that realising there is so much I don't know is actually a sign of maturity in itself.