I think 30 used to be more significant as a time to look back on your life and see what you've done so far...not so much anymore, since 30 is the new 20...people seem to be living with their parents a lot longer, getting married later and such. 40 seems to be the panic time for people these days who have no yet got their lives together and their lives are half over already... I feel pretty good about my life, though, so I won't freak when 40 gets here. I've got my kids half raised, house will be paid off, stuff like that.
Huge crisis. Suicide hovered my mind. A year later, I'm feeling more and more comfortable with aging. Life goes on.
You're right. people these days take a lot longer to grow up. 30 is no big deal. Hell 40 aint gonna be either. I bet 50 will suck. 60 will rock because I will be retired with a shit pile of cash!!
i forgot my 30th birthday. dave's mom called and reminded me a couple days later. i'm still immature and enjoying it. but i keep getting better looking. and when i turn 33 i'm getting a drum kit and lessons and hopefully going out for the roller derby. now that the whole "attracting a man to make babies with me and staying ornamental" thing has passed, i can get on with the really cool shit.
My mom turned 50 today and I feel really crappy. I dont think what I got her was fab at all. And my dad is *this close* to leaving and I dont know if she knows. But were all doing the going to dinner tonight, catering/bartending social saturday.
For me, turning 30 makes me think of my loved ones getting older...knowing that they aren't going to be around forever. I never felt that way until recently. For me turning 30 makes me realize, all three of my children are going to be in school this fall, and I'm done having babies because my body can't take another pregnancy. As much as I wanted to have my children at a young age, now that I'm approaching 30, I find my clock ticking...I think, now what? And unfortunately turning 30 also makes me fear what I'm going to start looking like in the upcoming years. Quite vain I suppose, but true. I swear I really look like I've aged lately in the face. Body wise, no, face, yes. I don't know, it's complicated, but this approaching birthday is more of something I dread than look forward to. I suppose I need to look at the bright side, whatever that may be.
when willie the shake talked about seven stages of life, what he was really refering to is that all of us go through multiple chainge of life chrisees, not just between infancy and adolesscence nor adolescence and having to depend on ourselves, but yes, accepting that by ghod i'm over 30 and i'm not dead yet, or when you get to where there's in all probability fewer years ahead of you then you've already lived. turning 30 isn't to that one yet, so even 30 somethings still have at least one more to look forward too. ain't life fun. well it still can be that it is. these are just one of the less fun parts of it that also come and go. =^^= .../\...
Damn.You folks are about done,arncha.Wait 'till you look in the mirror and see a giant prune instead of a pretty face!And Dave--where's that shit pile?I'd like to dig around in there for a while.What pisses me off is that everything will continue as usual after I'm dust n' bones.Seems like to be fair,everything should come to a halt,shouldn't it?Aren't I the center of all?ahhh--guess not.
no i didnt feel weird turning 30,,i didnt feel weird turning 40,, i have had nothing even remotely close to what one would call a mid life crisis.. im just as healthy, happy and content with my life now as i was at 20,30,and 40.. i personally think the whole "mid life crisis" thing is a product of the materialistic society that permeates this country. its the whole,, well bob is better off than me,,bob is got a younger prettier wife than me,,bob has less responsibility than me mentality that creates a "mid life crisis".. be happy with who you are,what youve accomplished,and where your at in your life. there is IMO no reason to stop and think about how you havent reached goals or your life aint where you thought it would be at 30 when you were 20.. when you were 20 you didnt have a fucking clue(whether you think you did or not),,of course life didnt turn out the way you thought it would. so once again,, no i didnt feel that way and still dont and wont ever...
