Did I Lose My Lust For Life or Get Lost Along The Way? Over 40 and Starting Over

Don’t Lose Yourself By Trying To Keep The Peace

Sara Burdick
6 min readAug 3, 2024
Punta Indio, Argentina Photo cred: Sara B

I don’t often think about age until I am around those in their early 20s. I also wonder if getting older has caused me to lose my steam and enthusiasm for life.

I turned 40 in 2020, a turning point for many of us. Many people I knew realized that they are not invisible and that tragedy can strike anytime, anyone, and anywhere.

No matter your political beliefs about what happened and how it played out, it affected each one of us in some way.

At this point in my life, I had already made a giant leap into the unknown and lived a nomadic life since 2018. I was working a full-time remote job, living all around the world.

It was what I wanted at the time.

I realized I did not want to have a boss; part of why I left the hospital was to be free. Plus, I had always wanted to create my own life, not one that society told me was ¨right¨.

I suppose I was still rebellious about the system, even in my late 30s and even today, since I recently received a new enthusiasm for life.

When I turned 40. I did not even think about my age; it was something I was and did not…

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Sara Burdick
Sara Burdick

Written by Sara Burdick

I quit the rat race after working as a nurse for 16 years. Travel and Storyteller. I live in Colombia. https://substack.com/@saraburdick

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