4 Brutal Truths That Hit You When You Hit Your 40s

Brutal Truth 4: It’s not where it’s with whom.

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Everything changes when you realize you have less time left to live than you have already lived.

It’s like eating the red pill from the Matrix.

You start paying attention.

You start to see what you didn’t dare to look at.

You start to reflect on those things you avoid thinking about.

And there is no turning back.

I took the red pill when I turned 40. I’m a month away from turning 43, and these four truths are the ones that have impacted me the most since then.

1. You have to work on your desire more than your abs. When you pass forty, you realize that your body no longer recovers as quickly as when you were 20, but it also happens to your soul. On the one hand, your body tends to accumulate fat that is three times harder to remove than when you were young. On the other hand, your inner fire starts to weaken. And in the same way that you have to force yourself to go to the gym even if you don’t feel like it (or practice another sport) to avoid a sedentary life that increases the risk of heart attack, you’d better make yourself do things so that the stealthy and always lurking snake of laziness don’t bite you…