Sunday, January 02, 2011

Men at Forty...



Welcome new year...welcome 2011!!!

Welcome to the year when my age will reach 40...

"A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time."  ~Oliver W. Holmes, Sr.

I believed that most of us who has reached age at forty experience this feeling. When we go to the market or restaurant, the waiter or cashier will start asking you with this  ..." Pakcik,pakcik...bla,bla!!" Then we realized that we are in old man club already. Last few years, may be we still have been called "Bang, bang...”.    Worst when you hold your small kid at the hypermarket and somebody asking you "Cutenyer budak ni...cucu ke?" lol...

Here are some quotes  related to 40:


Before thirty, men seek disease; after thirty, diseases seek men. ..


It's hard to feel middle-aged, because how can you tell how long you are going to live?  ..
Does age poison us, or do we poison age? ...

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.



Forty isn’t old, if you’re a tree


Life begins at forty.


Be wise with speed; A fool at forty is a fool indeed.


To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.


At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30 the wit; at 40 the judgement.


You’re not 40, you’re eighteen with 22 years experience.


What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.


The “I just woke up” face of your 30’s is the “all day long” face of your 40’s
At the age of 20, we don’t care what the world thinks of us; at 30, we worry about what it is thinking of us; at 40, we discover that it wasn’t thinking of us at all.


Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young...


The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age...


No wise man ever wished to be younger...


Happiness is good health and a bad memory...

40 is just a fancy word for old timer...

Too young for medicare, too old for men to care…

People don’t turn forty. They turn 39.95 plus shipping and handling...

40 is when your body gives your brain a list of things it’s not going to do anymore...



My dear friends,

Let quote be as a qoute...

The most important for us, we thankful to Allah for every thing we have. Allah gave us 40 years to look around and study His signs, and to come to a conclusion by the age of 40 that He is our only Lord and Master, and submit to Him. As a muslim, the age 40 is referred as the maturity age in the Qur’an. Our Prophet ( Nabi Muhammad s.a.w. revealed his Prophethood also at age of 40 years as instructed by Allah s.w.t.

In Surat-Al-Ahkaf (verse 15), a believer at his maturity age prays for being a grateful person:

“We have enjoined on man kindness to his parents: In pain did his mother bear him, and in pain did she give him birth. The carrying of the (child) to his weaning is (a period of) thirty months. At length, when he reaches the age of full strength and attains forty years, he says, “O my Lord! Grant me that I may be grateful for Thy favor which Thou has bestowed upon me, and upon both my parents, and that I may work righteousness such as Thou may approve; and be gracious to me in my issue. Truly have I turned to Thee and truly do I bow (to You) in Islam.” (Al-Ahqaf, 15)

Make sure your thankful to Allah (swt) this day and every day... InsyaAllah!