COLIN MACLEAN: I’m 40, now what?

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COLIN MACLEAN: I’m 40, now what?  

By the time this column is published, I will have celebrated my 40th birthday.

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My apologies to anyone reading this who has memories of me as a child – this must come as a shock to you.

I’m still trying to figure out how I feel about it myself.

By the time we hit our early 30s or so, we’re pretty well formed as human beings in terms of who we are going to be for the rest of our lives. That’s not to say we won’t change, it’s just that most of us have a pretty good idea of what we’re about by that point.

So, when I wake up on the morning of my birthday, I will be the same person I have been for a long time already. I don’t........

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