For the first time, at the age of 42, Jamie Reidy is struggling with getting older.
It’s my birthday. And for some reason turning 42 is really resonating with me. 40 didn’t feel like this, but for some reason 42 has really hit me hard.
Maybe it’s because Jackie Robinson wore number 42 and it’s retired by all the teams and all the players in Major League Baseball except for Mariano Rivera, the Yankees’ closer who will retire after this year.
Maybe it’s the fact that 42nd Street is one of the most famous thoroughfares in the world?
How about forty-deuce? There aren’t any cool nicknames for 41… But 42 has the forty-deuce.
Lastly, I used to be a 42-Regular and now I’m a 41-Regular suit jacket, which mocks the fact that I’m not as macho as I used to be.
What age really resonated with you?
41 Regular? 1) Eat. 2) Spend more time in the weight room with iron than in the cardio room preaching your gospel to your flock of female followers. I can’t believe you’re the guy who once outmuscled me up and down Stepan Court! I want a rematch as I have been crafting my physique more after Magic (Part Deux as a Power Forward) than your Shawn Bradleyness. As for your comments above, I can relate as a fellow unattached, almost 42 year old male with a shaved heac (so it looks like a choice instead of God’s will for me).… Read more »
You guys all make great points! Thanks for reading and commenting. Oh, and I am now so psyched for 50.
Jamie, you’ve gotta think about it differently:
You’re not forty-two.
You’re thirty-twelve.
😉
42 is an important number! It is the answer to “the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything,” according to the popular science fiction series “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.” It is also the amount of time (in minutes) that it would take to “ghost fall” from any arbitrary point on the Earth’s surface, to any other arbitrary point on the Earth’s surface (if you turned into a ghost that could float through solid rock under the influence of gravity). In summary, it is the perfect age to begin a great travel adventure, an odyssey that you would… Read more »
Wait a minute! Your complaining about ‘feeling old’ at 42? Ha ha, poor you! You said 40 was no big deal? Well,just wait ,50 is a sledgehammer between the eyes. It could be worse, at least you don’t make your living with your back. I’m reminded every day I go to work just how old I feel. LOL
50…that’s when you really start to face your mortality. It’s sobering but liberating at the same time.