Turning 40 Is a Rebellion – Aging with Agency, Not Anxiety

Today I turned 40. I’m still unmarried.No kids.I live in an unfinished house.And I’m still at the freelance level in my business, while many of my peers are juggling family life, kids, mortgages, and careers they've been in for over a decade—whether they love them or not. For a long time, this made me feel behind.Like I missed some train that everyone else seemed to catch.Like my life was a draft that never quite got finalized. But today… I see things differently. Turning 40—like this—feels...