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What's the wildest unprovable thing that you absolutely believe? Mine is that, if I don't die at 40, I'll live to 92.
Related: I'm terrified of being 40 someday.
@HG MINE IS THAT YOU ARE A DRIP IN EVERY CONCEIVABLE TIMELINE.
@HG no one really survives 40, it just takes some of us 50 years to complete the death throes
Being 40 is pretty awesome, honestly. I'm much happier than I was when I was 20. My shit is more sorted out and I'm more self aware.
It sounds pretty good! Especially if I make it to 41.
Okay so to reassure you I went and looked in the actuarial tables. The probability of a university-educated White American man dying at age 40 is 0.003780
If you're not a numbers guy then that's zero point three seven eight percent. You have a less than 0.4% chance of dying at exactly that age.
Of course, like the odds of being killed by your own dustbin, it's never zero. But it's unlikely. Take courage.
Your "facts" and "figures" are all well and good, but what about truths revealed during a sugar high when I was 16?
Well, those visions are immutable truth obviously. You're definitely doomed.
I think you have three options here.
Firstly, you could go to a witch and get that doom dealt with. It's the modern age and we have professionals to handle this sort of thing now.
Secondly, you could borrow loads of money to be paid back when you're 41, and make out like a bandit. You have more information than the bank does, so why not capitalise on that?
Thirdly, you could do dangerous things before you turn 40. If you know it'll happen then, you know it won't happen before then. Don't you want to be the first 39-year-old to set a land-speed record in a burning vehicle while playing a sick electric guitar solo?
Cranking up the life insurance is a great idea. My plan is mostly to make it to 41 (I'm 37) and then rock the hell out for another 51 years.
Sounds good. I look forward to the first All Lakes album coming out in four years time, then?
@passenger I better wrap it up before then.
@passenger @HG So you’re saying I should get rid of my dustbin. Got it.
Farah 
@passenger @HG I concur. You learn to NGAS and it’s cathartic and beautiful
@HG 40! That was a long time ago
@HG Real talk: it isn’t so bad. I mean, I can say that now that I’m nearly 46, but… heck, I don’t know what to say except that it’s ridiculous that society assigns so much importance to it.
And, to paraphrase what my dad used to say, living to be 40 is better than the alternative!
Being 40 sounds totally fine. Dying at 40 is the problem.
@HG Ah, now *that* I understand. My dad died at 51, almost exactly twice my age at the time, and that haunts me still.
I guess the only thing I can say there is that I have put a *lot* of practice into recognizing that there is no point to worrying about things that are totally out of my control. Doesn’t fix things, of course, but it does help me avoid catastrophizing and ruminating.
@HG screw 40, I'm afraid of being the age I already am
@HG I wish I could remember being 40
@HG I think sometimes I died at 40 and this is the bad place.
@HG I never expected to live to 20, but I also had vague images of what the decades of my life would be like 
@HG That good will prevail.
@LoganFive @HG Yeah. This one.
@HG It's either that cats understand human language or that I can curse people at a distance just by thinking hard.