What DID you think about turning 30?

[Observer]

It made me feel pretty bad. I was going through a divorce, I had no time to "celebrate" it as I was in the middle of final exams.
I haven't had kids, so as a woman, that made me feel pressured to be 30. But I don't feel I want them, but it stresses me anyway.
My career never took off, wasted so much time/money on study that didn't seem to benefit me (yet?).
So yeah, turning 30 was a bit miserable.
But I also fell in love at 29, with my current partner, who I was friends with for 7 years prior. I neverrrr thought we'd be together, not in a million years. Most thrilling time of my life. Plus I developed a lot as a person by ending a very bad marriage, pushing myself through a long degree.

 

[Original Happy Camper]

What DID you think about turning 30?

Turning Seventy now cannot remember

 

[JacquelineDeane55]

For me, turning 30 WS OK. There was no drama of any kind, which suits me just fine.

 

[dhh712]

When I was in high school (even in uni) I DREADED turning 30.
Thirty was that time when the "party was over" and when "life has to start". It was time (at the LATEST) to start having kids and buying a house.
All those "boring" things.

It made the month or so before my birthday kinda stressful for me. I was just dreading it as I had been dreading it in high school. Luckily, due to my "partying holiday lifestyle" I landed myself in some hot water and I had other stresses to thinkabout and my birthday became a distant thought.

After I turned thirty, I didn't really care. I still don't care that I'm 30 (about 5 months in).


how about you?

I actually was looking forward to it. I was then a transgender who looked very young for my age, so I was looking forward to the years in the hopes that I would look older too.

Now I'm getting closer to 40 and not thinking much of it! Still look young and interested to see how the years treat me. Hopefully as well as they have been so far! That would be really cool!

It also helps that my husband is quite a bit older than me, so looking older won't be *entirely* a negative thing. I'd still like to keep my youthful look though, if I had a choice!

 

[eighty_proof]

After I turned thirty, I didn't really care. I still don't care that I'm 30 (about 5 months in). how about you?

33 now. Can't really remember my 30th. Don't think I did anything special. I mean it's just a number, you know? Who gives a flying monkey dick whether you meet anyone else's ideals for what your life is supposed to be like by a certain age. I'm not middle class, I don't own a house, I don't have a wife or a kid, and conservative narrow minded church folks think there's something wrong with me. Oh well.

 

[vinsight4u]

/nvm

 

[S.O.J.I.A.]

not much honestly

 

[Mayflower1]

I feel a lot different then in the past. I think it took me a long while to mature. I hope by the time I am 40, I will have more confidence.

 

[MarkSB]

I didn't realize how old this thread was until I was on the second page... :/

Anyway - turning 30 really didn't bother me. I was amazed at how fast the years seemed to go by between 27 and 30, however. It feels like time goes by faster as you get older.

Also - having to watch what I eat was a change that took some getting used to. When I was <29 years old, I could eat whatever I wanted and it didn't have much of an effect, if any, on my weight.

 

[Guy Incognito]

It freaked me out to be honest - mostly because of dumb stuff. I was only working part-time (still the case, just different job) out of a grocery store, we were renting an apartment, I had no real hobbies - I was just feeling under established. But God is great, and I don't know what I was sweating.

 

[thecolorsblend]

Turning 30 was one of the most bitter experiences of my entire life. I had so many things I wanted to have achieved by 30 that achieving precisely none of them was unpleasant. I guess it didn't help that I'd been in a kind of bad mood for about ten years up to then.

In hindsight, I think things worked out about as well as they could've considering some of the bonehead decisions I'd made up to then. But in the moment you don't necessarily think in those kinds of terms. It's more about how annoying it is to turn 30 and have nothing to show for it.

Welcome to being a Millennial, I guess.

 

[Breakaway_republic]

To me, it wasn't so bad as people said it was. Yeah, I didn't have really much to show for the time before then, except for emotional scars and useless material stuff... but I saw it as a time to take a step back for a minute and re-focus on keeping the main thing THE main thing.

 

[Stringfellow_Hawke]

When I was in high school (even in uni) I DREADED turning 30.
Thirty was that time when the "party was over" and when "life has to start". It was time (at the LATEST) to start having kids and buying a house.
All those "boring" things.

It made the month or so before my birthday kinda stressful for me. I was just dreading it as I had been dreading it in high school. Luckily, due to my "partying holiday lifestyle" I landed myself in some hot water and I had other stresses to thinkabout and my birthday became a distant thought.

After I turned thirty, I didn't really care. I still don't care that I'm 30 (about 5 months in).


how about you?

It was just another year but I've noticed my mentality has changed completely from how it was in my 20s.

 

[Sir Robbins]

It really didn't bother me that much. My thoughts were pretty much "My 20s sure flew by fast" and "I'm much wiser (and happier!) now than I was at 20!"

the older I get, the more miserable I get. I have the opposite of you. I'll be 30 next year so I'm around the corner.

 

[.Iona.]

I was sad. I thought I'd have so much more when I reached 30.

 

[Sir Robbins]

^ I have a feeling next year, I'll feel the same way. No 2 people are on the same time track but generally speaking, I feel way behind.

 

[BookofMatt]

Turned 30 a couple months ago...I have so much more focus and direction than when I was 20 or even 25, not to mention considerably more connections and networking which have advanced my career goals. It almost feels like my life has only just started.

 

[Lizgee]

I’m turning 30 in a couple of weeks and...my only concern is that I’m not married and have no kids.

I have Jesus, two dogs, a career and a house. Almost everyone of my friends has a spouse and family. I feel so behind. I try to remind myself that God has His timing for everything, but sometimes my thoughts get the best of me.

 

[JesseBassett]

Its just another year for me. Or at least it was. Now that I am 34, it is something that whenever my birthday happens, I look at it as just another day.

 

[Lizgee]

Its just another year for me. Or at least it was. Now that I am 34, it is something that whenever my birthday happens, I look at it as just another day.

Here I am asking you for your favorite threads, and I see your response here.

You must at least order your favorite takeout and celebrate with some type of dessert!