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Today I turn 30 years old. That just doesn't sound right. I don't FEEL 30, more like 25 or something. I suppose it's one of those things that just happens to you that just doesn't sound right when applied to you. Kind of like it doesn't sound right when people refer to me as a husband or a father, although I know it's true.
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No, I mean why people don't ever seem afraid of turning 20 or 40, but have to unwrap their panties from a major bind when they hit 30 or 50. IT IS ILLOGICAL.
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quote: No, I mean why people don't ever seem afraid of turning 20 or 40, but have to unwrap their panties from a major bind when they hit 30 or 50. IT IS ILLOGICAL.
I wondered if that's what you meant, but I assumed I must be wrong, because that doesn't make any sense.
People don't freak about turning 20 because they're still growing up, not growing old. And they do freak about turning 40 or 60, just as much as 30 or 50. Certainly my parents did, and so did all their friends. And there's no lack of "lordy lordy, (customizable name here)'s turning forty" novelty mugs at your local Hallmarks.
I imagine by the time someone gets to 70 they've gotten sanguine about it.
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It is just another day to me. I guess I have decided to grow old and gray with ease, after all, why worry about it, I can't change it.
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Cartman: I don't know how it is over there, but in the US people refer to age 40 as being "over the hill". People will throw fortieth-birthday parties for thier friends/relatives with black balloons and stuff. So, people definitely make a big deal out of turning 40, too.
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Husband and father, eh? That gives me 10 years. Judging by what I have achieved in the past 5 years, that seems bloody unlikely. Yay for being a socially inept geek!
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Harry, using me as a gauge, you only have 3 years to get married, and 5 1/2 to have kids. Of course, I have a coworker who didn't get married until he was around 38.
Turning 30 isn't getting me down or freaked or anything. It's just the term "30 year-old" doesn't sound right when applied to me, if that makes any sense. BTW, my grandfather is turning 99 in less than a month, and he plans on outliving his grandfather, who lived to 105!
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