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50 is no big deal...your life was statistically half over at 43.
Few see 100 so the time to reflect is actually turning 40 if you want to have a "My life is half over..." reflective time.
Half a century is really a rather meaningless time reference point in a human life.
But hey...we do tend to make a bigger deal out of the years ending in zeros than any other digit! Once we get past the early big "rite of passage" events ages...18 legal to fuck and 21 legal to drink (note: these are in ages the USA).
In most advanced countries the age for both those events is lower as well...so go figure!
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