Life begins at 40 (or 10. or 20. or 30. or 50, or 60 or whenever you want it to)

 I am a forty something who feels like a twenty something because of my ability and willingness to learn and grow. I learned to swim at 25, to drive at 36. I am learning Japanese at 41 because I just want to know the language and not for any career opportunities. I am learning to be alone at 41. Life ends when fate decides it would end for you but life begins when you decide it begins for you. What more is there for me to learn? Maybe music, something that I have always loved as a listener but never attempted to learn. In fact when I thought I could, I was discouraged and told by people who were gatekeeping the only things they have to cling to, to forget about it, that it was not for me, that I wasn't good enough. But was anyone good enough before they decided they needed to do something or go bust? When you are young life holds a lot of promise, a lot of opportunities, and in turn a lot of confusion. Sometimes you get lost in that fog, end up following roads that lead to dead ends. And when you reach that dead end you find that too much time has passed and you are not young anymore! At that point if you give up then it is the end of it, however if you decide to turn back and find another road then life begins at whatever age you make that decision. Time is relative, time is only another dimension like length, breadth or width. So when you stop letting time define you, like you don't let your height or girth or weight define you, that is the time when your life begins. Death does not distinguish between a 20 year old and a 60 year old, so why should we?