{"id":8057,"date":"2025-08-22T22:19:52","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T16:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/?p=8057"},"modified":"2025-08-22T22:19:52","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T16:49:52","slug":"40","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/22\/40\/","title":{"rendered":"40"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I recently celebrated my 40th birthday. With age, we become wiser because we have witnessed more ups and downs. It&#8217;s the scars we carry that make us more cautious. All these things are told by authors and philosophers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What has changed for me is nothing. I am still the same, running around and breathing. I feel more competitive than before, and above all, my willingness to go all in has increased. In the end, what can go wrong? In short, nothing. I am competing with myself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our life is in our thoughts. Our thoughts are governed by people around us, what we see, and what we read. I am lucky to have reached here now to have my thoughts governed by me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many have written their 40 learnings in reaching 40. I have nothing to share. I am still young and as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XQSsi8RivQ8\">Bryan Adams says: 18 till I die.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently celebrated my 40th birthday. With age, we become wiser because we have witnessed more ups and downs. It&#8217;s the scars we carry that make us more cautious. All these things are told by authors and philosophers. What has changed for me is nothing. I am still the same, running around and breathing. I &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/22\/40\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;40&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,3],"tags":[1709],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8057"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8057"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8058,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8057\/revisions\/8058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}