I like being 40

I like being 40 because finally the circle has been closed between childish youthfulness and maturity. I am not at one pole in hot pursuit of the other any longer. Both aspects are available to me now in abundance.

I like it -- because I am saving up to buy some land.

I like it because I sit on the ledge of a mountain and survey the view, knowing that my privilege in observing it is all entirely something I have earned through off my own back.

I like it that conventional gender relations seem to me like so many childish games and childish faux pas.

I like it that I have developed such power over my own mind that I can get it to do almost anything I want it to.