You have multiple questions and you are obviously confused with your life direction. I am not 40 and I shall not pretend to understand your concerns. Here's my response to your questions and I really do not intend to trivialise your worries. How come life like that? Why must I be gay of all things in life? - Life is filled with uncertainty, unfairness and if you like, "misfortunes". But it is how you make sense of your situation that makes you feel better, or worse. Gays have no future. - I dunno why you say that gays have no future. I am quite certain I have a future and I am actually glad that I need not be tied down with some of the life issues that a typical heterosexual man has to deal with. Ask any of our 40yo plus volunteers and they will tell you how life can be equally exciting and hopeful. Just wait to die from AIDs one day. - Unless you are practicing unprotected sex and your sex partner is HIV positive, there is no way you will be infected with HIV. Even if you are HIV positive, you can actually live a very long life. I have met guys in their 60s and they are HIV positive and leading a balanced life. In any case, you have a choice to remain HIV negative if you want to. I thought finding true love from the opposite sex is bad enough. Same sex even worst and more challenging. - It is more challenging but it is not worse. Ask any straight couples who are going through divorce and they will give you a different view. A relationship depends on how much you are prepared to invest in, have faith in and work hard on. All relationships need hard work. Hear too many stories about gay relationships. Men are born to stray and so are gays. - Straight people strayed too. You need to meet some of the gay couples who count their relationships in decades. They are like old couples, sometimes full of nonsense but they know they have learnt to live their lives together. How should I prepare myself for the next 20 odd years before I leave this world? - You have a good 20 years. And I am glad that you have actually used the word "Prepared". That means you are willing to work on something so you are not seeing things in all negativity. I wish I could share with you the mature men guide that we are preparing now but it is not ready for release yet. But you can join our program for Mature Men Project and you will get to meet people who are in their 40s, some well adjusted, some still learning and some opened up for the first time. Talk to some of them, and you will realise you are born gay because you given a chance to live a slightly different life.