How Did This Happen?!

[quidditchgrrl]

Oh my, I am officially over the hill.

You know how you're reading a novel and you come across a passage that speaks to you as you are?

From Turning Thirty by Mike Gayle:

It was as if from the day I turned nineteen I'd been filling in a mammoth opinion survey on life, and sometime after my twenty-seventh birthday the results came in. Suddenly everything fell into place and life wasn't so complicated anymore. I knew myself, knew exactly what I wanted from life, and I was happy.

This didn't mean I didn't like anything new. I did. What it did mean was that the new things I let into my life were mostly variations on the old things that were already in my life...

Could someone hand me my cane? I think I feel my bursitis coming on...

Comments

[didi75.livejournal.com]

I'm no happier now than I was at 24 or 28. I mean, I know myself a bit better, but my life is still complicated in it's own way. What does this guy think? 30 is still young! I feel like my life is just getting started, there's still soooo much that I want to learn and experience.

I love your icon. :D You sons of a silly person!!!

[bunnicula38.livejournal.com]

Heh - I'm 40 and things still haven't clicked for me yet.

[siriologist.livejournal.com]

:::laughing:::: this guy obviously hasn't has kids yet. You do reach a semi-settled stage ... then, if you're having kids, all hell breaks loose again until they are 21.

[instantramen]

I'll get you a nice lap blanket for when you're sitting. ;)

[authenticjoy.livejournal.com]

*raises eyebrow*