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In the next 12 months, almost everyone reading these words, will celebrate birthday number
What does that signify? The end of youth? The beginning of true adulthood? Will I wake on March 18, 2011 and feel instantenously older, less exuberant, a tad more crotchety and slightly less able-bodied? I like to think not. But, as aging has happened, I've found myself adjusting my rules for defining "old". Twenty five was old when I was 21. Twenty nine was old was I was 25. Thirty four was old when I was 28. And this year, I've moved it up to 40. I'm going to try to hold it there.
Twenty nine has significantly altered my mindset. The 25 year old and 26 year old at work are simply too naive to understand most things, I salivate a little more than I used to for acquiring greenbacks, career urgency is amplified and going out to a bar (except when you all are around) almost repulses me.
I wonder what 30 will bring?
I think Butz and Lubahn are the first to go. Then Brown. Then Me. Then Faust. Then Portillo. Then Kevin. Then Mazur. (correct order?) Miller, Weiss and Chambers all escape for another year.
Cheers to the dwindling days of our third decade on Earth, amigos.
15 comments:
30 is scary. I think it is a lot scarier to women. Especially unwed ones.
30 reminds me of one of my favorite Adam Sandler quotes from the under appreciated Wedding Singer,
"I'm a big fan of money. I like it, I use it, I have a little. I keep it in a jar on top of my refrigerator. I'd like to put more in that jar."
Im already getting jokes about turing 30 and Im still 11 months away. Ya, its gonna suck and Ill probably think about making "30 year old decisions", but life goes on so what the hell. I say bring on the 3-0!
i sincerely feel that 30 is the new 20. humans are lasting longer today than they did a century ago, albeit marginally. go back 500 years ago and the norm was that to live to 50 was tremendous. centenarians will be the new norm, blue zones will be found everywhere. treat your body like you live in it and all will be well. live long and prosper, nanu nanu.
years old ending in 5's & 0's make me reflect. the queer reflection period ends with an oh fuck are you behind the curve moment. This is followed with 18 hrs of semi-depression, which is followed by booze. which is followed by not caring what age i am.
free food doesn't entice me anymore. when the free-food-boner goes away I feel like it marks a stage in your life.
The behind the curve question is the most daunting. But who is setting the curve?
You set your own curve, if you feel the need to set one at all.
I am not sure we do set our own curve even though we would like to think we do... I guess that was my question. Don't our families, spouses, friends and society have a hell of a lot to do with whether we feel like we are "on pace?"
Not trying to be all ethereal here, but 30 makes you think about that stuff.
follow my lead. you set your curve. you save your soul. live by your own sword, whether written word, or bullet blazing. it's not how you start, it's how you finish. and there's no uhauls behind hearses.
On pace for what? I don't compare myself to anyone else.
Oh, wait, Yes I do. Pressure from family, comparison to friends, tears on bank statements, YES, ranking yourself in the life challenge can be maddening and difficult.
I will tell you one thing, living in a 3rd world country sure removes you from all that house, car, mortgage, competition, Master's degree schtuff.
Feels pretty damn nice.
Run, Rabbit, Run.
When is Butz 30?
Lubes??
I think Butz is 37.
butz is smigel, he's 408. he buried the ring at Machu Picchu a couple months ago. he'll die in a month.
11-12-80
I don't feel old yet I don't feel young either.
Money is fools gold if you ask me...life has so much more to offer
oh, and i guess death has nothing to offer, and poverty has tons to offer??? do you feed your children with love?
how's the money poll turning out? can we get results posted? i want to know who's choosing 10k.
I have been 30 for two months, so I can speak to this topic using experience, though limited. First of all, who gives a fuck how old you are? Is 28 different from 30? Is 36 different from 30? It isnt, so who cares. My balls have a few more wrinkles, but the junk works the same as always. I do not put pressure on myself to get married, have kids, or conform to other social norms, so if those things hinge on an age in your psyche, I do not share the concern. If my family ever pressured me to do so, I would punch them in the collective taints. I may be getting off topic with the taint punching, but I guess what I am getting at is this: everyone on this blog has a life that is enviable by the majority of the rest of the world, so we should all be grateful regardless of our age. For those of us without kids, be grateful that you don't have a money leach attached to your every financial decision for at least the next 18 years. For those of us with kids, be grateful that you get to watch them grow into a hateful teenager and then an ungrateful young adult soon thereafter. Relish the thought of them coming home after their first date smelling like MD 20/20 and Virginia Slims stolen from grandma. Off topic again, back to the point. Your age is what you make it? You are as young as you feel? I think all the cliches apply. I am going to shotgun a beer and take a rip from a water bong now.
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