I am using 40 as fuel for getting on those things I've been putting off. 40 is just fuel for goals. Goal fuel.

So your all a lone in the world. Scary shit huh! Mortality isn’t about god or offspring plus why would you care you don’t have either. Mid life crisis is about questioning your beliefs and exploring your regrets. It’s ugly I know, been there done that. Your on shaky ground because your unsure of your stances. You need to re aquanaut yourself with your conviction and if that don’t work maybe you need to find yourself a god, pick one their a dime a dozen. And as for being alone, get a pet, at least if you kick the bucket tomorrow someone will miss you.

Your immortality comes from published words and deeds. Your children only perpetuate your genes... that’s the biological urge to create. God doesn’t offer immortality, (edited to add at least not in the corporeal sense.

(So people won’t quibble since believers would claim otherwise.)

"Do not fear the end, fear not doing that which is meaningful to you before the end arrives."

I don't know if I stole this quote or made it up just now but this is how I try to live.

You still have time to have a kid, maybe two, if you want. My wife was 40 when we had our youngest kid, a daughter, and that kid is now a senior research scientist at a biotech firm. Lucky you, kids with older parents tend to have higher IQs and achieve more so get out there and produce a child (if you want).

Make your moments count

Learn to love and live life you only get one chance at this ride

Get you a fast car, a bottle of tequila & 2 fire breathing whores for a night of unforgettable debauchery..... or decide what mark you want to leave on world & go for it.

Do as much good as you can before you die. Life well lived.

I’m 55 now with no children (done on purpose) and no “god.” I have, to date, no problems with having no biological legacy or the promise of an afterlife. What is bothering me now is that I’ve not yet found a career a job that inspires me to get up and enjoy my work life. It’s basically been four decades of entry level BS jobs. And that depresses me.

As an agnostic, I think there may be some sort of existence after death, but I'm not counting on it. Somewhere along the way, my conscienceness was brought into being, and as such, I think that this aspect of myself will not end when I die, I hope! If I actually do die and see my corpse laying there, I will know right then that I can fly or whatever to all the places on earth I didn't get to see, and I will be able to fly to the moon and the other planets. Just imagine flying thru the rings and Saturn and not have to worry about one of the pieces destroying your spaceship! Then maybe I'll go sailing around the Milky Way! So I don't want to die (because there is a woman I'm waiting to meet) but I think it'll just be the next phase! Yolo, so enjoy it while it lasts!

i have no gods and no human children, and my furbabies are preceding me into nonexistence. i am a writer but i am not well known, and my novel may never be finished or published. so much for that kind of immortality. i may have to give up on feeling immortal. i mean... we're not. we just aren't.

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Carpe Diem dude...

Divorced 2 years and I always lived for the moment but post divorce it took some time for me to find my joie de vive again.

Be easy on yourself and don't expect too much...just be and things will work themselves out

I'm immortal. Everyone is immortal. When my chemical machine terminates, my remains remain in whatever form and will be energy for future generations for as long as earth's ecosystem survives.

heave is really if people will be sorry you died and think of you in a positive way. Besides once dead no more problems no more worries. Hell is when people are glad you are dead.

There is only One Immortal supposedly anyway, so imo you are in way better shape than most believers i guess? lol. An atheist might be uniquely positioned to break out of the bell curve and plant a spike in the earth, why not? We don't much get to choose how we live, but we do get to choose how we die huh.

I am 28 have one child and don't believe in God yet I struggle with mortality all the time. On one hand I want to die why live when finding purpose can be a challenge on the other I'm a curious person who wishes I could live forever and discover all of life's greatest mysteries.

Thank you all for your comments. They are much appreciated.

As you read through the comments I believe you'll find your answer, but I do have one question what if you preferred bourbon over tequila?

Embrace your mortality and enjoy the remainder of the experience! Nothing makes it sweeter than knowing you got the chance and didn’t waste it thinking you had to make some old man’s imaginary friend happy.