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Cause, on 16 January 2026 - 09:50 PM, said:

I don't know why but I have realized that despite nearly being 40 I don't think of myself as such.

It just hit me right now that a former colleague of mine who in my head was older and wiser is probably my age. I don't know why but I always tend to give everyone else but not myself the benefit of experience. I always say that I don't feel that much different today than I did at 30, maybe even 25 (Im sure im very different but it happens gradually). I know I am different. My career is further, I live in my own place etc but somehow it doesn't effect me the way I think it should.

Whether its colleagues, people I meet socially etc I seem to default to giving them seniority over me forgetting that I am old enough to be having a midlife crisis.

I do this a lot at work, for a long time the people Ive been in charge of have been older and more experienced than me. And up until the last....5? Years Ive looked a lot younger than I am.
Im always surprised when someone (even now) 10 years my senior is asking me how to do stuff and seeking instruction, in my head I can't fathom why they would be asking a youngster, then I realise Im 40