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i liked it
i always wonder when i am going to feel my age. . . sometimes i check out HS kids and I am like whoa he is cute - then i remember that he can be ten years younger than me.
Honestly, I can talk to a sixteen year old and totally relate. . . when WILL i finally feel like an adult?
Great column!
i always wonder when i am going to feel my age. . . sometimes i check out HS kids and I am like whoa he is cute - then i remember that he can be ten years younger than me.
Honestly, I can talk to a sixteen year old and totally relate. . . when WILL i finally feel like an adult?
Great column!
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I am so there, and way older than you are. I have supreme problems acknowleging my actual age...I feel like I should be much younger.
I am also very giddy and star-struck, to have had such an honorable mention in a published work.![]()
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I am also very giddy and star-struck, to have had such an honorable mention in a published work.
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I can't be an adult, I still watch MTV Reality TV. Alot. When I transition over to the likes of Touched by an Angel, Murder She Wrote or Jag, then it is the beginning of the end.
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I am so there, and way older than you are. I have supreme problems acknowleging my actual age...I feel like I should be much younger.
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I was thinking of a name for you and then realized that there's none better than the one that you've been given.
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I am a full decade older than you - I turned 38 exactly 3 weeks before you will be 28.
I still don't feel my age.
The worst birthday ever was when I turned 29. All I could think about was all the things I had thought I would accomplish by the time I was 30 - and suddenly a year wasn't enough time to get it all done. They call that melancholy Saturn Return if you believe in astrology. I don't - but it was a pretty good argument as a case for it.
When I hit 30 - the time bomb in my mind - it was like the pressure was released. I hadn't done half of what I wanted/thought I would do. And I didn't implode. I was still me. And that was fine.
It was more than fine. Not caring about what I 'NEEDED' to get done freed me. And then I just enjoyed life.
I don't care so much about age anymore. Things happen when they happen. I don't look for an expiration date on my a$$. I just live. And I enjoy every single day.
Maybe that state of mind is what maturity is. Maybe it is a marker of my age. But Whatever. This weekend I am going to the fair and I am eating cotton candy. And I am going on a ferris wheel with my boys. And I am going to search for beach glass. And I might stop to pick a few dandelions along the way.
/rambling.
As always - you really have a great style. Even in 15 minutes you manage to produce a solid and insightful piece of work.![]()
I still don't feel my age.
The worst birthday ever was when I turned 29. All I could think about was all the things I had thought I would accomplish by the time I was 30 - and suddenly a year wasn't enough time to get it all done. They call that melancholy Saturn Return if you believe in astrology. I don't - but it was a pretty good argument as a case for it.
When I hit 30 - the time bomb in my mind - it was like the pressure was released. I hadn't done half of what I wanted/thought I would do. And I didn't implode. I was still me. And that was fine.
It was more than fine. Not caring about what I 'NEEDED' to get done freed me. And then I just enjoyed life.
I don't care so much about age anymore. Things happen when they happen. I don't look for an expiration date on my a$$. I just live. And I enjoy every single day.
Maybe that state of mind is what maturity is. Maybe it is a marker of my age. But Whatever. This weekend I am going to the fair and I am eating cotton candy. And I am going on a ferris wheel with my boys. And I am going to search for beach glass. And I might stop to pick a few dandelions along the way.
/rambling.
As always - you really have a great style. Even in 15 minutes you manage to produce a solid and insightful piece of work.
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Jeannie - I like when you ramble.
That's what kills me sometimes - all that I haven't accomplished. But when I truly think about the goals that I set for myself at 18, I laugh.
I wanted to get my PhD in history. And teach.
Basically, I was going to try to get my eyes to fall out of my head from reading so much. And flirt with college kids.
But then - you don't plan for a breakdown, you don't plan for bad things.
And the next thing I knew, I was 23, drunk at my Fire Island house with my Oldest Friend and said, 'I need to be a writer.'
She said something like, 'Uh, YEAH, you do.'
So maybe I should cut myself some slack this weekend. I've only had like 5 years to get myself where I want to be.
That's what kills me sometimes - all that I haven't accomplished. But when I truly think about the goals that I set for myself at 18, I laugh.
I wanted to get my PhD in history. And teach.
Basically, I was going to try to get my eyes to fall out of my head from reading so much. And flirt with college kids.
But then - you don't plan for a breakdown, you don't plan for bad things.
And the next thing I knew, I was 23, drunk at my Fire Island house with my Oldest Friend and said, 'I need to be a writer.'
She said something like, 'Uh, YEAH, you do.'
So maybe I should cut myself some slack this weekend. I've only had like 5 years to get myself where I want to be.
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Well said.
I can totally relate to the article. I am going to be 30 in September and still feel like I'm 17. When I hear songs that were popular in high school, it seems like those songs were only released a few years ago and not a decade ago.
I can totally relate to the article. I am going to be 30 in September and still feel like I'm 17. When I hear songs that were popular in high school, it seems like those songs were only released a few years ago and not a decade ago.
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This brings up all sorts of stuff for me.
That column was awesome! Good job for 15 min.
Ever since I can remember I have been WAITING to turn 30. I remember so clearly being 16 in the car and wishing, DREAMING I was 30 so I could just STOP being a kid. I hated being treated like a kid. I hated being told I was too young and needed to wait. It was so frustrating.
I will be turning 30 in July of this year. I could not be more excited to get the hell out of my 20's. I guess it has a lot to do with being a teacher. When I got my first teaching job at 22 I worked in a middle school and got asked more than once for a pass in the hallway from teachers that had yet to meet me. It was so embarrassing to be mistaken for a 13 year old. I hated it. I felt that no one took me seriously.
I am still considered a baby and I hate that. I'M 30!!! finally 30. finally an adult. I would not relive my teenage years if you paid me 8 million dollars. NO WAY! It was torturous.
Being an adult is WAY better than being a kid in my opinion. I will take my bills and my adult responsibilities over homework and teenage heartbreak any day. Then again, as a kid I never really let go. I have done all of my growing and rebelling as a 20 something.
As an adult I can get in my car and go. I don't have to ask permission. I don't have to ask to buy this or that. Well, I am supposed to ask my husband but whatever.
Am I making any sense? Does anyone agree? Here is to being an adult!![]()
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That column was awesome! Good job for 15 min.
Ever since I can remember I have been WAITING to turn 30. I remember so clearly being 16 in the car and wishing, DREAMING I was 30 so I could just STOP being a kid. I hated being treated like a kid. I hated being told I was too young and needed to wait. It was so frustrating.
I will be turning 30 in July of this year. I could not be more excited to get the hell out of my 20's. I guess it has a lot to do with being a teacher. When I got my first teaching job at 22 I worked in a middle school and got asked more than once for a pass in the hallway from teachers that had yet to meet me. It was so embarrassing to be mistaken for a 13 year old. I hated it. I felt that no one took me seriously.
I am still considered a baby and I hate that. I'M 30!!! finally 30. finally an adult. I would not relive my teenage years if you paid me 8 million dollars. NO WAY! It was torturous.
Being an adult is WAY better than being a kid in my opinion. I will take my bills and my adult responsibilities over homework and teenage heartbreak any day. Then again, as a kid I never really let go. I have done all of my growing and rebelling as a 20 something.
As an adult I can get in my car and go. I don't have to ask permission. I don't have to ask to buy this or that. Well, I am supposed to ask my husband but whatever.
Am I making any sense? Does anyone agree? Here is to being an adult!
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I actually feel very comfortable in my age.
Very satisfied witht he things I have accomplished.
Well, meaning- I don't feel old and unaccomplished.
I promise dmyself to never 'grow up'. And then I defined 'grow up' to mean- 'resent my responsibilities'. Because resentment is what makes you old.
So I embrace my new mortgage. And the fact that all my free time will by ****** up by home maintenance. I admit to having a tough time adjusting to married life, but i don't regret, resent, or miss the old ways. We will both grow from our struggles, making us- not more mature, but happier.
And being happy is what keeps you young.
Very satisfied witht he things I have accomplished.
Well, meaning- I don't feel old and unaccomplished.
I promise dmyself to never 'grow up'. And then I defined 'grow up' to mean- 'resent my responsibilities'. Because resentment is what makes you old.
So I embrace my new mortgage. And the fact that all my free time will by ****** up by home maintenance. I admit to having a tough time adjusting to married life, but i don't regret, resent, or miss the old ways. We will both grow from our struggles, making us- not more mature, but happier.
And being happy is what keeps you young.
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See now, I'm the opposite. Go figure!! I'm 26 but I feel older. I mean, I'm married to a 42 y/o man with a 10 y/o step-daughter, I've been at my job for 8 years, I listen to classic rock, and I'm just not into the typical twentysomething bar-hopping, guy-oogling, wild and crazy times that I'm 'supposed' to be into.
Couple that with the fact that I LOOK like I'm supposed to be in HS. Seriously, I'd go to bridal showcases and vendors would look back and forth btw my mom and I and would ask 'So who's the bride?'.
Age is just a number, don't let it hinder you. I'm still excited every year when my b-day comes around like I was when I was a kid, and I don't plan on being upset when I turn the big 3-0 or any time after that either!! I'm proud of what I've accomplished in my short lifetime and anything that I haven't gotten to yet, well either I've got plenty of time or it just wasn't meant to be so I don't get hung up on it.
Have fun at RobMo on Saturday, but DO NOT sit on the beach and compare yourself to others!!![]()
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Couple that with the fact that I LOOK like I'm supposed to be in HS. Seriously, I'd go to bridal showcases and vendors would look back and forth btw my mom and I and would ask 'So who's the bride?'.
Age is just a number, don't let it hinder you. I'm still excited every year when my b-day comes around like I was when I was a kid, and I don't plan on being upset when I turn the big 3-0 or any time after that either!! I'm proud of what I've accomplished in my short lifetime and anything that I haven't gotten to yet, well either I've got plenty of time or it just wasn't meant to be so I don't get hung up on it.
Have fun at RobMo on Saturday, but DO NOT sit on the beach and compare yourself to others!!
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I actually feel very comfortable in my age.
Very satisfied witht he things I have accomplished.
Well, meaning- I don't feel old and unaccomplished.
I promise dmyself to never 'grow up'. And then I defined 'grow up' to mean- 'resent my responsibilities'. Because resentment is what makes you old.
So I embrace my new mortgage. And the fact that all my free time will by ****** up by home maintenance. I admit to having a tough time adjusting to married life, but i don't regret, resent, or miss the old ways. We will both grow from our struggles, making us- not more mature, but happier.
And being happy is what keeps you young.
Smartness.
I have no life except painting and decorating. Never ending, but it is a nice feeling cause it is our house.
