Every one says you begin to know your real self at 40...

I think that is true. It's like I turned 40 and all of a sudden I don't want extra stuff in my life, I don't want to be someone I am not, I don't want to deal with people who get on my nerves. Things don't matter so much as people do. I wonder how I wasted most of my life "wanting" things. Now I want peace, I want family time, I want simplicity, I want love, I want less, I want to feel safe, I want to be genuine, I want to quit pretending around certain family members. I want to be myself, my whole self and nothing but myself.