I turned 40 and waited to feel old but felt free instead.

Read this at your "big" age.

I turned 40 this month. In the days, months, and years approaching this milestone, I prepared myself to take on something heavier, something that would weigh me down. I’m so used to the increase in age coming hand in hand with larger, wider, and more costly expectations. What part of my life isn’t successful enough? What part of me should look better? E…