My 40s Were A Lesson – Reflecting On A Decade And Looking Ahead To Another

Almost another next chapter / Credit: Mike Carter, March 28, 2026

I started a birthday challenge before I turned 40 years old.

Every day, I wrote a blog post from February 29 to until my mid-April milestone.

The big 4-0.

Even while staying in the Epilepsy Monitoring Unit, I wrote about life and shared knowledge. At thirty-nine, I thought I had everything figured out with four decades of life under my belt.

Which is impossible, considering half of those decades were spent in elementary, high school, and college.

No one has all the answers.

Looking back though, I don’t want to 40-year-old me and say, “Girl, you messed up.” Because, I didn’t mess up. I lived. I learned. Some people weren’t happy with my choices. I’m not happy with some of the choices or stuff that girl made, but here we are.

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