[rhinocaster]

This subject has been on my mind for the last several days.

I have to say that I'm not happy. I'm 43. Still "Young" to some, but certainly not young. Like Chris Rock said, "If I died today everyone would say, 'Oh, but he was so young'." That doesn't make me young. In your 40s you can already feel the different lives you've lived. It takes quite a while to get here.

I've always been a very strong and physically fit person. In my 20s I thought nothing of getting up every workday at 5am and riding my bike 60 miles before work. My friend and I would take walks on Saturdays that we called, "There and backs." They were a walk to and from a beach 25 miles away. Over a mountain! I was a paratrooper. I wrestled and played baseball in high school. Until 2 years ago I ran large printing presses and I've loaded as much as 10,000 lbs of paper in a 10 hour day.

In my 30s life was much the same as my 20s. A little bit of maintenance on my body at the gym was all that was required.

In my 40s, everything is changing. Weight comes and sticks like glue. I'm less interested in taking the 40% (Off the top of my head) more time at the gym that it's going to take to maintain any kind of solid fitness level. I used to ENJOY the discomfort that came with strenuous activity and exercise. I really don't enjoy that feeling anymore.

I think that if I was 22 and stepped into my current body for 1 minute I'd go straight to the hospital!

I think I do need to put the time in. Life is too short.