Age is a funny thing, but sometimes getting older is not so funny.  Like many things it is only really funny when it is not happening to you.

It seems everyone is getting older.  Even our heroes are not what they used to be.

Spidey, catching his breath.

For those who missed it I turned 37 this last week.

What’s in a number?  Well 37 is kind of a weird number.  It is definitely older than 35, but at least it is not 40 which is of course right around the corner. And then death right?

A potential upside is that I think I now qualify for a mid-life crisis, and that is something I have been considering.

From what I understand that means I would need to buy a high end sports car and have an affair.  Aside from the fact I don’t think I could afford either I see a couple of other problems right off the bat. For one, I don’t know s^*t about cars, and I am not that fond of driving to begin with. So that seems like kind of a waste.

As for an affair, I think I can only can handle disappointing one woman at a time, so that is out too.

Worth considering?

So perhaps I’ll put the mid-life crisis thing on the back burner for now.

I would love to tell you that the best presents I got were the 65″ plasma, quad-core PC and top of the line Blu-Ray player -except I didn’t get those (dammit). The best present came unexpectedly and in the form of an email from a man named Albert:

HAPPY BIRTHDAY from AFGHANISTAN and I want to thank you I starting reading your material you send out 6 or so months ago and it was just reading and 4 months ago I put a plan into action and I told myself what did I have to lose but weight and I am happy to say in 4 months I have lost 84 pounds.

So even if I can’t get to where you are you are effecting people around the world…

THANKS AND PLEASE KEEP ON KEEPING ON

 

This is a guy who reads my newsletter in f’ing Afghanistan for crap’s sake. I might have corresponded with him once or twice before, but to hear that a guy I have never met used my words to help and inspire him lose an amazing 84 pounds completely blew me away and absolutely made my birthday. To Albert: congratulations on an amazing job and YOU keep on keeping on!

On another topic, just over a month ago in a previous post a promised a “shirt off” picture.  I went into a little detail on why that is a big deal to me too.  So I said I would post it by my birthday, but here it is taken Saturday September 27th, a few days late.

Ho ho ho – Green Giant

 

I am not the leanest I have ever been, but not too shabby for a geezer.

Birthdays are funny things. For many marking the day of their birth is just a way of reminding them they are one day closer to the big dirt nap. I have to say this was the first one that really had me thinking- I am not a kid anymore, but that does not mean I am old.  When I am old, I will still refuse to be old.  It’s like the old cliche – you are only as old as you feel.

If the only way anyone can tell how old you are is with carbon dating, you might be a fossil and you might want to get that checked out, but other than that if you can read this you are not old. I argue that if you feel old something is not right, no matter what the calendar says.  There is always something you can do to feel better, feel healthier, to feel younger and to feel alive- figure it out and do it.  Workout, read, meditate, relax whatever. You only go around once, so make it count and make it good you geezer.

 

Joshua Carter, CPT The Body Transformation Expert Carter Fitness http://carterfitness.com 818-337-6175