As someone of close to the same age, I'm with you on the sense of time sometimes seeming to fold back on itself, especially when a tune comes on from too many years ago to count--it doesn't seem that many years ago that I was exactly the same age as my teenager, busting my bottom at my first real summer job in a camp kitchen, and listening to the cook's choice of music all summer long--endless repetitions of the Rolling Stones and Eddy Grant and Lynyrd Skynyrd. (I had to Google-search how to spell that.) Even today those songs instantly bring back the hottest, sweatiest, most onion-and-garlic-smelling kitchen I ever worked in--and some of the most intense spiritual experiences I've ever had as well.
There's no possible way that that was a quarter of a century ago. But it was...and yes, sometimes my ankles hurt too.
stiff joints, tiredness....I'm starting to understand what my mom said that once a person hits the mid 40's there are just some things you don't want to bother with doing. 
but overall I like being in my mid-40's. Stuff I know, things I can teach, it's all good. Though there are times I wouldn't mind knowing what I know...and being in my 30's!
annette: amen!
I can't believe I'm the age I am either (40). I'm with Annette, I like being here at this stage of life though like you, I realize daily (hourly) my own weakness. Aging in Reverse...interesting perspective. Good thoughts.
I'm 47. I got fibromyalgia at 41 and arthritis at 46, so daily pain has become a part of my life in my 40's, something I would rather not have, but I do agree with you saying that we age in reverse, as far as realizing how small we really are.
Sally, my mother has struggled with chronic pain, too, since her earl 40's. I realize how blessed I am to have so far not struggled with that. It must be difficult.
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